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Colonial pathologies, environment, and western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
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Colonial pathologies, environment, and western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 / Kalala Ngalamulume.
ISBN
9781433114991 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1433114992 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781453908136 (e-book)
1453908137 (e-book)
Published
New York : Peter Lang, c2012.
Physical Description
xiii, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 08, 2013
Series
Society and politics in Africa, v. 21
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction: Setting, themes, and conceptual perspectives
The making of a colonial city
"The white man's disease": the great yellow fever epidemics, 1867-1900
"The black man's disease": cholera and social inequality, 1868-1899
A conflict of interests among commerce, competing conceptions of public health, and civil liberties, 1882-1901
The scientific missions to Senegal and Brazil and the new paradigm, 1901-1912
Plague and violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920
Conclusion.
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