Article ID: CBB788695045

Living in "Cold Storage": An Interior History of Tanzania's Sleeping Sickness Concentrations, 1933-1946 (2016)

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An essay is presented on sleeping sickness concentrations in Tanzania from 1933 to 1946. It offers information on sleeping sickness or trypnosomiasis which a deadly disease affecting both humans and animals and was first diagnosed in Tanzania in 1929. The British government reportedly forced residents of the Kagera area to move to other settlement sites to control the epidemic. Also examined are the political motivations of the resettlement and the historiography of trypnosomiasis.

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Authors & Contributors
Neill, Deborah Joy
Webel, Mari K.
Bennett, Brett M.
Brockington, Dan
Desowitz, Robert S.
Espinosa, Mariola
Journals
Social History of Medicine
American Historical Review
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
Gesnerus
History and Technology
Publishers
University of Minnesota
Indiana University Press
Ohio University Press
Stanford University Press
University of Chicago Press
University of North Carolina Press
Concepts
Colonialism
Epidemics
Trypanosomiasis, African
Public health
Medicine
Great Britain, colonies
People
Jamot, Eugene
Ehrlich, Paul
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Africa
Tanzania (Tanganyika, Zanzibar)
East Africa
India
Korea
Canada
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