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Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920, Kalala Ngalamulume

Label
Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920, Kalala Ngalamulume
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionariesbibliography
Oclc number
814705816
Responsibility statement
Kalala Ngalamulume
Series statement
Society and politics in Africa, v. 21Peter Lang eBooks
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Setting, themes, and conceptual perspectives -- The making of a colonial city -- "The white man's disease": the great yellow fever epidemics, 1867-1900 -- "The black man's disease": cholera and social inequality, 1868-1899 -- A conflict of interests among commerce, competing conceptions of public health, and civil liberties, 1882-1901 -- The scientific missions to Senegal and Brazil and the new paradigm, 1901-1912 -- Plague and violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920 -- Conclusion
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