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Title: | BLACK DEATH, WHITE MEDICINE: BUBONIC PLAGUE & THE POLITICS OF PUBLIC HEALTH IN COLONIAL SENEGAL, 1914-1945 | |
| Author: | MYRON ECHENBERG | |
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| Price: | £16.95 | ||
| Publisher: | JAMES CURREY | ||
| Distributor: | PLYMBRIDGE | ||
| ISBN: | 0852556462 | ||
| Format/Size: | 227 X 142 MM PB | ||
| Pages: | 320 | ||
| Publication Date: | FEB 2002 | ||
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| Description: | Looking at the bubonic plague in colonial Senegal between 1914 & 1945, the author examines how coloniser & colonised changed their perceptions of the epidemic over time. Whereas French bio-medical officials were initially convinced they would triumph over the plague pathogen & contemptuously rejected the applied knowledge of African healers, many Africans regarded the plague as biological warfare utilised by their conquerors. |
| Key Points: | Coercive plague control measures such as compulsory vaccination, travel restriction, & undignified burial generated strong resistance, yet colonial officials gradually won the consent of a westernised minority of the African elite who came to equate Western bio-medicine with modernity. |
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