Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Peter Lang,
2012.
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| Series: | Society and politics in Africa,
v. 21 |
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Table of 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.