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Author:

Echenberg, Myron J.

Title:

Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1815 to the present / Myron Echenberg.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

p. ; cm.

Subject:

Cholera--Africa--History--19th century.
Cholera--Africa--History--20th century.
Cholera--Africa--History--21th century.
Epidemics--History--Africa.
Cholera--history--Africa.
Disease Outbreaks--history--Africa.
History, 19th Century--Africa.
History, 20th Century--Africa.
History, 21st Century--Africa.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

African studies ; 114.

ISBN:

0521188202 (pbk.)
9780521188203 (pbk.)
1107001498 (hardback)
9781107001497 (hardback)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)660509869

LCCN:

2010037101

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)