ACLS Humanities E-Book: The colonial disease: a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940

The colonial disease: a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940

Lyons, Maryinez.

Year: 1992.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of maps

List of plates

List of tables

Preface

List of abbreviations

1 Disease and medicine in the history of Africa

2 From private empire to public colony

3 Mise en valeur: economic exploitation

4 Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness

5 'The Lure of the Exotic': sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism

6 Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo

7 The campaign. Part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine

8 The campaign. Part two: the surveys and tensions

9 The African response

10 Public health, social engineering and African lives

11 Conclusion and legacy

Appendices

Notes

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Index

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Title:

The colonial disease : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940 Maryinez Lyons.

Author:

Lyons, Maryinez

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2008
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The colonial disease : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940 Maryinez Lyons.
Lyons, Maryinez
Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.02627

Subject Headings:

• Social medicine -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History
• African trypanosomiasis -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- History

Notes:

• Revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis.
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