Colonial Disease

Name: Colonial Disease
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A Social History of Sleeping Sickness in Northern Zaire, 1900-1940

Автор: Maryinez Lyons

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Cambridge University Press

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The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and man...

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Автор

Maryinez Lyons

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2002

страници

352

EAN

9780521524520

ISBN

0521524520

Enbook ID

02033667

Издател

Cambridge University Press

Теглоt

530

Размери

149 x 227 x 27

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The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of western bio-medicine as a central feature of their 'gift' to Africans. By 1930, however, it was clear that some features of their 'civilising mission' were in fact closely connected to the poor health of many of the Congolese. The Europeans had indeed brought scientific enquiry and western bio-medicine; but they had also introduced a harsh, repressive political system which, coupled with a ruthlessly exploitative economic system, led to the introduction of new diseases while already-existing diseases were exacerbated and spread. Tropical, or 'colonial', medicine was a new field at the turn of the century, linked closely both to European expansionism and human trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. In 1901 a devastating epidemic had erupted in Uganda, killing well over 250,000 people.

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