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Egypt's other wars : epidemics and the politics of public health / Nancy Gallagher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gallagher, Nancy Elizabeth, 1942- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary Issues in the Middle East
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (190 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, New York : Syracuse University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation's struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.Egypt in the 1940's as in the throes of a nationalist upheaval. Nationalists of all political ideologies attributed the sever epidemics that the country was experiencing to Egypt's status as an underdeveloped and colonized nation. The epidemics were therefore viewed for the first time as not only a public health crisis but also a political problem that called for a political solution.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780815655527
- 0815655525
- OCLC:
- 1281957147
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