The politics of disease control : sleeping sickness in eastern Africa, 1890-1920

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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Main Author: Webel, Mari K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019]
Series:New African histories series
Subjects:
1800-1999
African trypanosomiasis > Africa, Eastern > Epidemiology > History > 19th century.
African trypanosomiasis > Africa, Eastern > Epidemiology > History > 20th century.
Public health > Political aspects > Africa, Eastern > History > 19th century.
Public health > Political aspects > Africa, Eastern > History > 20th century.
Imperialism.
Epidemics > Africa, Eastern > History.
MEDICAL / Public Health.
African trypanosomiasis > Epidemiology.
Public health > Political aspects.
Trypanosomiasis, African > epidemiology.
Trypanosomiasis, African > history.
History, 19th Century.
History, 20th Century.
Trypanosomiase
Africa, Eastern.
Eastern Africa.
Ostafrika
History.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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