Article ID: CBB476663717

“A Danger Which More or Less Threatens Us All”: Yellow fever and the politics of disease control in Senegal 1890–1914 (2014)

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Prior to 1900, the colony of Senegal had suffered from periodic epidemics of yellow fever. In an attempt to combat the disease, the government of Senegal began to enact new legislation to prevent the spread of epidemics. The government hoped that these new laws would allow them to control yellow fever epidemics without hurting the economic viability of the colony, but they found that the new laws created new challenges. Within the first decade of the passage of the new legislation a series of formal complaints and court cases would challenge sanitation laws and test the limits of government authority.

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Authors & Contributors
Espinosa, Mariola
Maria Paola Zanoboni
McCrea, Heather
Yip, Ka-che
Walther, Daniel J.
Smith, F. B.
Journals
Journal of World History
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Journal of Southern History
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Publishers
Editoriale Jouvence
Northwestern University
Georgetown University
University of Pittsburgh Press
University of Chicago Press
James Currey
Concepts
Public health
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
Colonialism
Medicine
Yellow fever
People
Wilde, Robert Willis
Jamot, Eugene
Finlay, Carlos Juan
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
18th century
Early modern
Medieval
Places
United States
Cuba
Senegal
Mexico
Guinea
Hong Kong
Institutions
Catholic University of Ireland (Dublin)
Royal Belfast Academical Institution
Rockefeller Foundation
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