The Politics of Disease Control - Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa 1890-1920

Summary

Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local histories to understand the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—in dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.

Product details

• Authors: Mari K. Webel, Mari Kathryn Webel, Mari Kathryn/ Webel Webel
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9780821423998
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2399-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: New African Histories
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous