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

"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Webel, Mari K. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Part I. The Ssese Islands. Orienting to the Ssese Islands, c. 1890
  • Finding Sleeping Sickness on the Ssese Islands
  • Healing Mongota, Treating Trypanosomiasis : Research on the Ssese Islands
  • Part II. The Kingdom of Kiziba, c. 1890
  • Orienting to the Kingdom of Kiziba, c. 1890
  • The Prince and the Plague : Politics, Public Health, and Rubunga in Kiziba
  • Gland-Feelers, Elusive Patients, and the Kigarama Camp
  • Part III. The Southern Imbo, c. 1890. Orienting to the Southern Imbo, c. 1890
  • Mobility, Illness, and Colonial Public Health on the Tanganyika Littoral.