The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920

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ISBN: 9780821423998
Author : Mari K. Webel
Published: 2019
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Number of pages: 272
Language: English
Format: Hardback
Format: 229×152

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Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, Webel prioritizes local histories to understand the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—in dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.

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