ISBN:
1107001498
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0521188202
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9781107001497
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9780521188203
Language:
English
Pages:
XVI, 208 S.
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Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
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23 cm
Edition:
1. publ.
Series Statement:
African studies 114
Series Statement:
African studies
DDC:
614.5/14096
Keywords:
Cholera History 19th century
;
Cholera History 20th century
;
Cholera History 21st century
;
Epidemics History
;
Cholera history
;
Disease Outbreaks history
;
History, 19th Century
;
History, 20th Century
;
History, 21st Century
;
Cholera Africa
;
History
;
19th century
;
Cholera Africa
;
History
;
20th century
;
Cholera Africa
;
Epidemics Africa
;
History
;
Afrika
;
Cholera
;
Pandemie
Abstract:
"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The First Six Cholera Pandemics, 1817-1947: 1. 'The fiend of pestilence' 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 II. The Seventh Cholera Pandemic Strikes Africa: 5. Medical changes; 6. Seventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk factors: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.
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