Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.

  • Echenberg, Myron J.
Date:
2011
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Description

"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Physical description

xvi, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The First Six Cholera Pandemics, 1817-1947: 1. 'The fiend of pestilence' circles the globe; 2. Medical responses; 3. Cholera ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947; Part II. The Seventh Cholera Pandemic Strikes Africa: 5. Medical changes; 6. Seventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk factors: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.

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    History of Medicine
    FK.1.AA8-10
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ISBN

  • 9781107001497
  • 1107001498
  • 9780521188203
  • 0521188202