Book ID: CBB175864050

The Politics of Disease Control: Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920 (2019)

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Webel, Mari K. (Author)


Ohio University Press


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 272 pp.
Language: English

A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change.

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Authors & Contributors
Ismail, Shehab
Morgan J. Robinson
Jia Hui Lee
Sarah Rafferty
Weiskopf, Julie M.
Willrich, Michael
Concepts
Public health
Epidemics
Prevention and control of disease
Colonialism
Great Britain, colonies
Germany, colonies
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
United States
Africa
Óman
Cairo (Egypt)
Jamaica (Caribbean)
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