Africa in the time of cholera : a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / Myron Echenberg.

• 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.

• "This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher. 

Ämnesord

Cholera  -- Africa -- History -- 19th century. (LCSH)

Cholera  -- Africa -- History -- 20th century. (LCSH)

Cholera  -- Africa -- History -- 21st century. (LCSH)

Epidemics  -- History -- Africa. (LCSH)

Cholera  -- history -- Africa. (MeSH)

Disease Outbreaks  -- history -- Africa. (MeSH)

History, 19th Century  -- Africa. (MeSH)

History, 20th Century  -- Africa. (MeSH)

History, 21st Century  -- Africa. (MeSH)

Klassifikation

RA644.C3 (LCC)

2011 D-807 (NLM)

WC 264 (NLM)

614.5/14096 (DDC)

Vnac (kssb/8 (machine generated))