Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 (Record no. 207617)
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| fixed length control field | 02197nam a2200397 a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 616.9/883009663 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Ngalamulume, Kalala J. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Colonial pathologies, environment, and Western medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New York : |
| Name of publisher | Peter Lang, |
| Year of publication | 2012. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xiii, 246 p. : |
| Other physical details | ill. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | Introduction: Setting, themes, and conceptual perspectives -- The making of a colonial city -- "The white man's disease": the great yellow fever epidemics, 1867-1900 -- "The black man's disease": cholera and social inequality, 1868-1899 -- A conflict of interests among commerce, competing conceptions of public health, and civil liberties, 1882-1901 -- The scientific missions to Senegal and Brazil and the new paradigm, 1901-1912 -- Plague and violence in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1917-1920 -- Conclusion. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Tropical medicine |
| Topical Term | Tropical medicine |
| Topical Term | Public health |
| Topical Term | Epidemics |
| Topical Term | French |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10612424 |
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