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A Look in the Mirror - Daring to Face the Truth about Malaria

Thesis advisor: Susan A. Michalczyk / Malaria is a curable, preventable disease which has been around for millennia. Unfortunately, in this time of unprecedented growth and resources, the world has yet to prevent malaria from continuing its vicious cycle, taking the life of a child every thirty seconds. This project is an interdisciplinary creative writing exploration of the underlying biological, sociological, and theological reasons for this failure to eradicate an avoidable illness. Aside from the biological difficulties involved in creating vaccines for the complex strains of the malaria parasite, the deeper cause of malaria's persistence within the bloodstream of humanity is the narcissism to which all people are prone, especially when self-interest is upheld as the highest virtue of Western capitalistic society. Literature, sociology, and theology, among other fields, each point to the answer of humility and love as solutions to the global problem caused by the fact that, ultimately, there is something far worse than malaria plaguing everyone from within. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2007. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BOSTON/oai:dlib.bc.edu:bc-ir_102126
Date January 2007
CreatorsMatook, Elaina
PublisherBoston College
Source SetsBoston College
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeText, thesis
Formatelectronic, application/pdf
RightsCopyright is held by the author, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise noted.

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