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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

Table of Contents: “…Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.…”
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Epidemics, empire, and environments : cholera in Madras and Quebec City, 1818-1910 / by Zeheter, Michael

Subjects: “…Cholera India History 19th century.…”
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Diseased relations epidemics, public health, and state-building in Yucatán, Mexico, 1847-1924 / by McCrea, Heather L.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : region, ethnography, and medicine in Yucatán, Mexico -- The politics of prevention : the Maya, smallpox, and vaccination campaigns -- On sacred ground : cholera, burial rites, and cemetery management -- Cholera and the caste war : civilizing campaigns and disease prevention -- Modernizing the periphery : henequen, the caste war, and yellow fever -- Disease prevention, the Rockefeller Foundation, and revolution in Yucatán, 1915-24 -- Conclusion : outsiders, disease, and public health in modern Yucatán, Mexico -- Afterword : H1N1 and the legacy of uncertainty.…”
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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 by Ngalamulume, Kalala J.

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.…”
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Epidemics and the Health of African Nations /

Table of Contents: “…Contending with epidemics and health systems in Africa. Cholera in Africa in the 21st century : questions of justice and human rights / Sunanda Ray, Farai D. …”
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