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Africa in the Time of Cholera : a History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present.
This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | African Studies, 114.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The First Six Pandemics, 1817-1947; 1 Cholera Circles the Globe; 2 Medical Responses; 3 Cholera Ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4 Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947; Part Two The Seventh Pandemic: Introduction: Cholera Changes Its Face; 5 Medical Changes; 6 The Seventh Cholera Pandemic in Africa.
- 7 Risk Factors: Environment and Geography, Armed Conflicts, and the Dispersal of Refugees8 Risk Factors: Public Health Policy Choices among Stable and Weak States; 9 Zimbabwe, Portrait of Cholera in a Failed State; 10 Cholera Today; Bibliography; I. Statistical References; II. Unpublished Material; III. Articles and Monographs; IV. Newspapers and Internet; Index.