The Politics of Disease Control
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2399-8 (ISBN)
A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.
Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change.
Mari K. Webel is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a specialist in modern African history and the histories of public health, healing, and medicine.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I THE SSESE ISLANDS, C. 1890–1907
The Ssese Islands, c. 1890: An Overview
Chapter 1 Finding Sleeping Sickness on the Ssese Islands
Chapter 2 Healing Mongota, Treating Trypanosomiasis Research on the Ssese Islands
PART II THE KINGDOM OF KIZIBA, C. 1890–1914
The Kingdom of Kiziba, c. 1890: An Overview
Chapter 3 The Prince and the Plague Politics, Public Health, and Rubunga in Kiziba
Chapter 4 Gland-Feelers, Elusive Patients, and the Kigarama Camp
PART III THE SOUTHERN IMBO, C. 1890–1914
The Southern Imbo, c. 1890: An Overview
Chapter 5 Mobility, Illness, and Colonial Public Health on the Tanganyika Littoral
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.11.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | New African Histories |
| Verlagsort | Athens |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8214-2399-1 / 0821423991 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8214-2399-8 / 9780821423998 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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