Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.
| Author/creator |
Echenberg, Myron J. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
| Description | xvi, 208 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | African studies ; 114 African studies series ; 114. ^A23157 |
| 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. |
| LCCN | 2010037101 |
| ISBN | 9781107001497 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1107001498 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9780521188203 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 0521188202 (pbk.) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions | |
| Joyner | General Stacks | RA644.C3 E24 2011 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |