Egypt's Other Wars - Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation's struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.
Egypt in the 1940's as in the throes of a nationalist upheaval. Nationalists of all political ideologies attributed the sever epidemics that the country was experiencing to Egypt's status as an underdeveloped and colonized nation. The epidemics were therefore viewed for the first time as not only a public health crisis but also a political problem that called for a political solution.

About the author

Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher is associate professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Medicine and Power in Tunisia, 1780-1900.

Summary

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940s killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other Wars reconstructs the nation's struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.

Product details

• Authors: Nancy Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth Gallagher
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1990
• EAN: 9780815625070
• ISBN: 978-0-8156-2507-0
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 562 g
• Series: Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Mid; Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous