Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 Africa: political
- 1 Disease and medicine in the history of Africa
- 2 From private empire to public colony
- 3 Mise en valeur: economic exploitation
- 4 Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness
- 5 ‘The Lure of the Exotic’: sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism
- 6 Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo
- 7 The campaign. Part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine
- 8 The campaign. Part two: the surveys and tensions
- 9 The African response
- 10 Public health, social engineering and African lives
- 11 Conclusion and legacy
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
List of plates
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 January 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- List of plates
- List of tables
- Preface
- List of abbreviations
- Map 1 Africa: political
- 1 Disease and medicine in the history of Africa
- 2 From private empire to public colony
- 3 Mise en valeur: economic exploitation
- 4 Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness
- 5 ‘The Lure of the Exotic’: sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperialism
- 6 Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo
- 7 The campaign. Part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine
- 8 The campaign. Part two: the surveys and tensions
- 9 The African response
- 10 Public health, social engineering and African lives
- 11 Conclusion and legacy
- Appendices
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- The Colonial DiseaseA Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900–1940, pp. xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1992