“The Dammed Body: Thinking Historically about Water Security and Public Health”
“The Dammed Body: Thinking Historically about Water Security and Public Health”
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– 被诅咒的身体：对水安全和公共卫生的历史思考 –
DOI：
10.1162/daed_a_01877
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
1.7
通讯作者：
Derr, Jennifer L.
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作者：
Derr, Jennifer L.
本文追溯了尼罗河的建设和疾病在埃及在漫长的世纪的流行之间的历史关系，着眼于这段历史的相关性，在非洲大陆的其他地区的影响，大型水坝的建设。从19世纪的第二个十年开始，一直延续到1970年代，尼罗河经历了一个戏剧性的转变过程。两个大型水坝-1902年Khazan Aswan和阿斯旺高坝-在河上建造。常年灌溉渠网促进了全年农业生产，高坝提供电力。埃及河岸生态的重建也对埃及人口的健康产生了重要影响，因为这些生态与新的疾病景观和生物医学治疗方法有关。
This essay traces the historical relationship between the construction of the Nile River and the prevalence of disease in Egypt in the long twentieth century, with an eye to the relevance of this history to other regions on the African continent impacted by the construction of large dams. Beginning in the second decade of the nineteenth century and stretching through the 1970s, the Nile River underwent a dramatic process of transformation. Two large dams–the 1902 Khazan Aswan and the Aswan High Dam–were constructed on the river. Networks of perennial irrigation canals facilitated the practice of year-round agricultural production and the High Dam provided electricity. The remaking of Egypt's riparian ecologies also had important implications for the health of Egypt's population as these ecologies were associated with new landscapes of disease and approaches to biomedical treatment.