Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present /
Echenberg, Myron J.
Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xvi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - African studies ; 114 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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: Se negambia, 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. S eventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk facto rs: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimba bwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.
"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to exa mine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provi ded by publisher.
9780521188203 (pbk.) 0521188202 (pbk.)
2010-037101
Cholera--History--Africa-- 19th century.
Cholera--History--Africa-- 20th century.
Cholera--History--Africa-- 21st century.
Epidemics--History--Africa.
614.514096
Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg. - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. - xvi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. - African studies ; 114 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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: Se negambia, 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. S eventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk facto rs: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimba bwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today.
"This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to exa mine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provi ded by publisher.
9780521188203 (pbk.) 0521188202 (pbk.)
2010-037101
Cholera--History--Africa-- 19th century.
Cholera--History--Africa-- 20th century.
Cholera--History--Africa-- 21st century.
Epidemics--History--Africa.
614.514096