Book ID: CBB001421023

Epidemics: The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases (2012)

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Phillips, Howard (Author)


Ohio University Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: 168 pp.; ill.; notes; index
Language: English

This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today--smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS--the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic--the "Spanish flu," for instance, claimed the lives of 6 percent of the country's population in six weeks--to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history--such as during the South African War and World War I--the book also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. To those who read this book, history will not look the same again.

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Authors & Contributors
Martín Espinosa, Noelia María
Ayarzagüena Sanz, Mariano
Pépin, Jacques
Rhodes, John
Khan, Shalini H. N.
Swedlund, Alan C.
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Disease and diseases
Infectious diseases
Plague
Influenza
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
Early modern
18th century
Modern
21st century
Places
United States
Brazil
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Uruguay
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Portugal
Institutions
World Health Organization (WHO)
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