Black Death, White Medicine: Bubonic Plague and the Politics of Public Health in Colonial Senegal, 1914-1945 (Social History of Africa)

by Myron Echenberg

Book Overview

The bubonic plague took over 50,000 lives in colonial Senegal between 1914 and 1945. The Africans tenaciously resisted coercive and punitive plague control measures. This text examines how colonizer and colonized changed their perceptions of the epidemic over time. North America: Heinemann

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0852556462
• ISBN13: 9780852556467
• Release Date: February 2002
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"