Article ID: CBB001213836

Controlling Man-Made Malaria: Corporate Modernisation and the Arabian American Oil Company's Malaria Control Program in Saudi Arabia, 1947--1956 (2012)

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In 1947, the Arabian American Oil Company (ARAMCO) began a malaria control program in Saudi Arabia. Historians of development focus on state-led schemes, ignoring corporate policy. The story of ARAMCO's malaria control efforts indicates that corporate objectives significantly influenced American--Saudi relations in the immediate post-World War II era. Regardless of corporate research that interpreted malaria as a symptom of underdevelopment, the company persisted with the most common control measures at the time, assaults on the mosquito. In contrast, Saudi Arabia and the World Health Organization connected the disease to economic stagnation and its control to development.

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Authors & Contributors
Webb, James L. A., Jr.
Man-Kong, Wong
Leung, Yuen-Sang
Carlo Castiillo Rodriguez
Marín-Murcia, José Pedro
María del Carmen González Leonor
Concepts
Public health
Malaria
Disease and diseases
Corporations
Medicine and society
Epidemics
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
18th century
Places
United States
Africa
Middle and Near East
South Asia
Republic of Liberia
Hong Kong
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
United Nations
Tennessee Valley Authority
Rockefeller Foundation
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
Johns Hopkins Hospital
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