Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
Author/creator |
Echenberg, Myron J. |
Format | Electronic and Book |
Publication Info | New York : Cambridge University Press, |
Description | xvi, 208 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm. |
Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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Series | African studies ; 114 African studies (Cambridge, England) ; 114. UNAUTHORIZED |
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. |
Abstract | "This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
Genre/form | Electronic books. |
LCCN | 2010037101 |
ISBN | 9781107001497 (hardback) |
ISBN | 1107001498 (hardback) |
ISBN | 9780521188203 (pbk.) |
ISBN | 0521188202 (pbk.) |
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