The colonial disease : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940

The colonial disease : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940 / Maryinez Lyons.

The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of western bio-medicine as a central feature of their 'gift' to Africans. By 1930, however, it was clear that some features of their 'civilising mi...

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Main Author: Lyons, Maryinez (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:Cambridge history of medicine.
Subjects:
African trypanosomiasis > Congo (Democratic Republic) > History.
Social medicine > Congo (Democratic Republic) > History.
African trypanosomiasis
Social medicine
Congo (Democratic Republic)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Disease and medicine in the history of Africa
  • From private empire to public colony
  • Mise en valeur : economic exploitation
  • Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness
  • "The lure of the exotic" : sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism
  • Discovery : Liverpool scientists in the Congo
  • The campaign. Part one : sleeping sickness and social medicine
  • The campaign. Part two : the surveys and tensions
  • The African response. Part one. Sleeping sickness and African societies ; Part two. Reactions to the disease
  • Public health, social engineering and African lives
  • Conclusion and legacy.

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