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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 (Hardcover, New edition) Loot Price: R1,352
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Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 (Hardcover, New edition): Kalala...

Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 (Hardcover, New edition)

Kalala Ngalamulume

Series: Society & Politics in Africa, 21

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Focusing on yellow fever, cholera, and plague epidemics as well as on sanitation in the context of urban growth in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal between 1867 and 1920, this book explores how the French colonial and medical authorities responded to the emergence and re-emergence of deadly epidemic diseases and environmental contamination. Official reactions ranged from blaming the Africans and the tropical climate to the imposition of urban residential segregation and strictly enforced furloughs of civil servants and European troops. Drastic and disruptive sanitary measures led to a conflict between the interests of competing conceptions of public health and those of commerce, civil liberties, and popular culture. This book also examines the effort undertaken by the colonizer to make Senegal a healthy colony and Saint-Louis the healthiest port-city/capital through better hygiene, building codes, vector control, and the construction of waterworks and a sewerage system. The author offers insight into the urban processes and daily life in a colonial city during the formative years of the French empire in West Africa.

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Imprint: Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin: United States
Series: Society & Politics in Africa, 21
Release date: November 2012
First published: 2013
Authors: Kalala Ngalamulume
Dimensions: 230 x 155 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 246
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-4331-1499-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > General
Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Environmental medicine > Tropical medicine
Books > History > African history > General
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LSN: 1-4331-1499-2
Barcode: 9781433114991

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