Search Results - "cholera"

Global health in Africa : historical perspectives on disease control /

Table of Contents: “…"Snake in the belly" : Africa's unhappy experience with cholera during the seventh pandemic, 1971 to the present /…”
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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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Nationalizing the body the medical market, print and daktari medicine / by Mukharji, Projit Bihari

Table of Contents: “…Healers in context: forgotten pioneers -- Daktari prints: the world of bengali printing and the multiple inscriptions of daktari medicine -- Contagious nationalism: contagion and the actualization of the nation -- Political plague: diagnosing a neo-Hindu modernity -- Endemic commerce: cholera and the medical market -- Dhatu dourbalya: the rhizoid pathologies of weakness -- Conclusion.…”
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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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Healthcare without borders : understanding Cuban medical internationalism / by Kirk, John M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: setting the scene -- Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army" -- Elam, a school for all nations -- Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right -- Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions -- Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade -- South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses -- The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on -- Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera -- Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific -- The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated -- Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida -- Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.…”
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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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