Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 (Social History of Africa)

by Myron Echenberg

Book Overview

Looking at the bubonic plague in colonial Senegal between 1914 and 1945, the author examines how colonizer and colonized changed their perceptions of the epidemic over time. Africans tenaciously... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852556462
• ISBN13: 9780852556467
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 6.2"