The Politics of Disease Control : Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890-1920 /

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"A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Webel, Mari K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Public health > Political aspects.
Imperialism.
African trypanosomiasis > Epidemiology.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
History, 20th Century.
History, 19th Century.
Trypanosomiasis, African > history.
Trypanosomiasis, African > epidemiology.
Public health > Political aspects > Africa, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Public health > Political aspects > Africa, Eastern > History > 19th century.
African trypanosomiasis > Africa, Eastern > Epidemiology > History > 20th century.
African trypanosomiasis > Africa, Eastern > Epidemiology > History > 19th century.
Eastern Africa.
Africa, Eastern.
Epidemics > Africa, Eastern > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention-the sleeping sickness camp-into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past. Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9780821446911

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