Epidemics (eBook)

The Story of South Africa’s Five Most Lethal Human Diseases

Howard Phillips (Autor)

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2012
168 Seiten
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-4442-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today-smallpox, bubonic plague, "e;Spanish influenza,"e; polio, and HIV/AIDS-the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic-the "e;Spanish flu,"e; for instance, claimed the lives of six percent of the country's population in six weeks-to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history-such as during the South African War and World War I-the book also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. To those who read this book, history will not look the same again.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.9.2012
• Reihe/Serie: Ohio Short Histories of Africa
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Epidemiologie / Med. Biometrie
• ISBN-10: 0-8214-4442-5 / 0821444425
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8214-4442-9 / 9780821444429