The colonial disease : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940 / Maryinez Lyons
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- 1761869
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- Lyons, Maryinez
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992
- xiv, 335 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0521403502
- 0521524520
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- Cambridge history of medicine.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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- Preface
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- 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 imperilaism
- 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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- Revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis.
- Paperback ed. published 2002.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [296]-328) and index.
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