Description |
1 online resource (231 pages) |
Series |
African Studies, 114 |
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African Studies, 114
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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 |
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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 Unpublished Material; III.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
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Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 20th century
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Cholera -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
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Epidemics -- Africa -- History
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Cholera
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Epidemics
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Africa
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781139082754 |
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1139082752 |
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1283111055 |
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9781283111058 |
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