MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2001024564
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005 20070511110526.0
008 010403s2002 nhua b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aRC179.S38$bE26 2002
082 00 $a614.5/732/009663$221
100 1 $aEchenberg, Myron J.
245 10 $aBlack death, white medicine :$bbubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 /$cMyron Echenberg.
260 $aPortsmouth, NH :$bHeinemann,$cc2002.
300 $axiii, 303 p. :$bill. ;$ccm.
440 0 $aSocial history of Africa,$x1099-8098
504 $a"Sources": p. [273]-293.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Illustrations ix -- Acknowledgments xi -- Abbreviations xv -- Glossary xvii -- Introduction 1 -- 1 Epidemics and French Colonial Medicine 3 -- 2 Background to the Senegalese Bubonic -- Plague Epidemics, 1880-1914 15 -- Part I: "Take [a Job in Dakar] if You Want to Die": -- The Plague Epidemic of 1914 49 -- 3 Outbreak, April-May 1914 51 -- 4 Plague's Progress in Dakar, May-November 1914 58 -- 5 The Medical Response 90 -- 6 Measuring the Impact of the 1914 Epidemic 115 -- Part II: Kooxa Dooma Ka: "Acute Headaches," 1919-38 137 -- 7 "The Plague Leaps out of the Ground": -- Plague Ecology in Senegal 139 -- 8 Visions of the Plague: The Rural Impact 159 -- 9 Plague in the City: Epidemics in Dakar, -- Rufisque, and Saint-Louis 184 -- Part II: "Merely a Disease of Natives": -- Plague, War, and Politics, 1939-45 211 -- 10 The Dakar Plague Epidemic of 1944 213 -- 11 The Plague's Retreat after 1945 255 -- Appendix: The Statistical Picture 267 -- Sources 273 -- Index 295.
650 0 $aPlague$xSocial aspects$zSenegal$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aPublic health$xPolitical aspects$zSenegal$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aImperialism$xHealth aspects$zSenegal$xHistory$y20th century.
856 42 $3Book review (E-STREAMS)$uhttp://www.e-streams.com/es0511/es0511_2172.html