Black death, white medicine : bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945

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Black death, white medicine : bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945

Myron Echenberg

(Social history of Africa)

Heinemann , James Currey, c2002

  • : Heinemann : cloth
  • : James Currey : cloth
  • : Heinemann : pbk
  • : James Currey : pbk

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Some copies have different pagination: xviii, 303 p

Includes index

"Paperback cover photo: Women and men being dusted with DDT, Dakar Médina, 1944"--T.p. verso

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The bubonic plague took over 50,000 lives in colonial Senegal between 1914 and 1945. The Africans tenaciously resisted coercive and punitive plague control measures. This text examines how colonizer and colonized changed their perceptions of the epidemic over time.

目次

Introduction - Epidemics & French colonial medicine - Background to the Senegalese bubonic plague epidemics, 1880-1914 - Part I 'Take [a job in Dakar] if you want to die'. The plague epidemic of 1914 - Outbreak, April-May 1914 - Plague's progress in Dakar, May-November 1914 - The medical response - Measuring the impact of the 1914 epidemic - Part II Kooxma Dooma Ka: 'Acute headaches', 1919-38 - 'The plague leaps out of the ground': plague ecology in Senegal - Visions of the plague: the rural impact - Plague in the city: epidemics in Dakar, Rufisque & Saint-Louis - Part III 'Merely a disease of natives': plague, war & politics, 1939-45 - The Dakar plague epidemic of 1944 - The plague's retreat after 1945 - Appendix: the statistical picture

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