| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
New African histories
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New African histories series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. The Ssese Islands. Orienting to the Ssese Islands, c. 1890 -- Finding Sleeping Sickness on the Ssese Islands -- Healing Mongota, Treating Trypanosomiasis : Research on the Ssese Islands -- Part II. The Kingdom of Kiziba, c. 1890 -- Orienting to the Kingdom of Kiziba, c. 1890 -- The Prince and the Plague : Politics, Public Health, and Rubunga in Kiziba -- Gland-Feelers, Elusive Patients, and the Kigarama Camp -- Part III. The Southern Imbo, c. 1890. Orienting to the Southern Imbo, c. 1890 -- Mobility, Illness, and Colonial Public Health on the Tanganyika Littoral. |
| Summary |
"A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention-the sleeping sickness camp-into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past. Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
African trypanosomiasis -- Africa, Eastern -- Epidemiology -- History -- 19th century.
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African trypanosomiasis. |
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Eastern Africa. |
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Epidemiology. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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African trypanosomiasis -- Africa, Eastern -- Epidemiology -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Public health -- Political aspects -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- 19th century.
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Public health -- Political aspects. |
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Public health. |
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Public health -- Political aspects -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Imperialism.
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Imperialism. |
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Epidemics -- Africa, Eastern -- History.
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Epidemics. |
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Africa, Eastern. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Webel, Mari K. Politics of disease control. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2019] 9780821423998 (DLC) 2019031424 (OCoLC)1111652714 |
| ISBN |
9780821446911 (electronic book) |
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0821446916 (electronic book) |
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9780821423998 |
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0821423991 |
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9780821424001 |
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0821424009 |
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