Black death, white medicine : bubonic plague and the politics of public health in colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 / Myron Echenberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Echenberg, Myron J.

Series:

Social history of Africa 1099-8098

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Death--Social aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.

Black Death.

Plague--Social aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.

Plague.

Public health--Political aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.

Public health.

Imperialism--Health aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Health aspects.

History.

Public health--Political aspects.

Plague--Social aspects.

Black death--Social aspects.

Senegal.

Physical Description:

xviii, 303 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : James Currey ; Cape Town : David Philip, [2002]

Contents:

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 III "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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0852556462

0852556969

0325070172

0325070164

OCLC:

46703071