Maryinez Lyons, Lyons Maryinez

The Colonial Disease

A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900 1940
Herausgeber: Rosenberg, Charles

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness, relating it to the western 'civilising mission'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780521524520
• ISBN-10: 0521524520
• Artikelnr.: 21599808

Inhaltsangabe

List of maps
List of plates
List of tables
Preface
List of abbreviations
1. Disease and medicine in the history of Africa
2. From private empire to public colony
3. Mise en valeur: economic exploitation
4. Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness
5. 'The lure of the exotic': sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism
6. Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo
7. The campaign, part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine
8. The campaign, part two: the surveys and tensions
9. The African response
10. Public health, social engineering and African lives
11. Conclusion and legacy
Appendices
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index.