Colonial Disease - A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940

Klappentext A case-study in the history of sleeping sickness! relating it to the western 'civilising mission'. Zusammenfassung The Congolese people termed sleeping sickness the 'colonial disease'. This study examines why Belgian colonisation of the Congo! rather than benefiting the local population! exacerbated many diseases. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Maryinez Lyons, Maryinez (University of London) Lyons, Lyons Maryinez
• Assisted by: Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521524520
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52452-0
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine