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Author Echenberg, Myron

Title Africa in the Time of Cholera : a History of Pandemics from 1817 to the Present
Published Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages)
Series African Studies, 114
African Studies, 114
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Figures, Maps, and Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part One: The First Six Pandemics, 1817-1947; 1 Cholera 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 Two The Seventh Pandemic: Introduction: Cholera Changes Its Face; 5 Medical Changes; 6 The Seventh Cholera Pandemic in Africa
7 Risk Factors: Environment and Geography, Armed Conflicts, and the Dispersal of Refugees8 Risk Factors: Public Health Policy Choices among Stable and Weak States; 9 Zimbabwe, Portrait of Cholera in a Failed State; 10 Cholera Today; Bibliography; I. Statistical References; II. Unpublished Material; III. Articles and Monographs; IV. Newspapers and Internet; Index
Summary This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817
Notes Print version record
Subject Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 19th century
Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
Epidemics -- Africa -- History
Cholera
Epidemics
Africa
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781139082754
1139082752
1283111055
9781283111058