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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920

Kalala Ngalamulume (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

246 Seiten

2012 | New edition
Peter Lang Publishing Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4331-1499-1 (ISBN)

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Focusing on yellow fever, cholera, and plague epidemics as well as on sanitation in the context of urban growth in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal between 1867 and 1920, this book explores how the French colonial and medical authorities responded to the emergence and re-emergence of deadly epidemic diseases and environmental contamination. Official reactions ranged from blaming the Africans and the tropical climate to the imposition of urban residential segregation and strictly enforced furloughs of civil servants and European troops. Drastic and disruptive sanitary measures led to a conflict between the interests of competing conceptions of public health and those of commerce, civil liberties, and popular culture. This book also examines the effort undertaken by the colonizer to make Senegal a healthy colony and Saint-Louis the healthiest port-city/capital through better hygiene, building codes, vector control, and the construction of waterworks and a sewerage system. The author offers insight into the urban processes and daily life in a colonial city during the formative years of the French empire in West Africa.

Kalala Ngalamulume is Associate Professor in the Department of History and in the Africana Studies Program at Bryn Mawr College. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on the history of health and disease in Senegal and co-editor with Paula Viterbo of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2010). He has also published in the Journal of African History, African Economic History, History in Africa, Revue de Pédagogie Apliquée, Encyclopedia of African History, and Oxford Bibliographies Online.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.11.2012
Reihe/Serie	Society and Politics in Africa ; 21
Reihe/Serie	Society and Politics in Africa ; 21
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Gewicht	480 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Mikrobiologie / Infektologie / Reisemedizin
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4331-1499-2 / 1433114992
ISBN-13	978-1-4331-1499-1 / 9781433114991
Zustand	Neuware