Enemy in the Blood

“This is a much needed volume that attends to the sociopolitical dimensions of infectious disease. Carter brings together historical documents with a place-based analysis to inform the production of malaria eradication campaigns in Argentina in a way that offers much to the social sciences.”
—AAG Review of Books

“...the impressively well researched and referenced work has much to offer students of social, ecological, and medical history.”
—Lancet

“Deeply researched and thoughtfully argued, Enemy in the Blood represents an important contribution to the history of malaria.”
—Journal of the History of Medicine

“Enemy in the Blood is exhaustively researched, well written, and provides detail about a compellingly important issue for Argentina as well as other poor countries. The book will be of great interest to scholars not just in Latin American social history but also in the history of medicine, geography, and public health.”
—Latin Americanist

“Carter does a nice job of satisfying those who demand ‘theorization’ without allowing cultural analysis–speak to overwhelm and obscure his narrative. The story is clearly and convincingly told, and the primary source usage is impressive.”
—Margaret Humphreys, author of Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War and Malaria: Poverty, Race, and Public Health in the United States

“Eric Carter's Enemy in the Blood makes an original, rigorous, and significant contribution to understanding the intertwined social/natural, conceptual/material processes involved in the role of epidemic diseases in the emergence of place. This book will be of great interest to historians, geographers, anthropologists, rural sociologists and, one hopes, epidemiologists.”
—Andrew Sluyter, author of Colonialism and Landscape: Postcolonial Theory and Applications

“A key element of the Argentine malaria campaign was to link the disease with place. Effective control strategies incorporated the geographical context. In a similar vein, Carter makes a convincing case that the history of medicine also benefits from close attention to the role of place. Deeply researched and thoughtfully argued, Enemy in the Blood represents an important contribution to the history of malaria.”
—Frederick R. Davis, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences