Echenberg, Myron J. <br/><br/>
Africa in the time of cholera :  a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / 
Myron Echenberg. 
 - New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2011. 
 - xvi, 208 p. :  ill., map ;  23 cm. 
 - African studies ;  114 .
 - African studies (Cambridge, England) ;  114. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. The First Six Cholera Pandemics, 1817-1947: 1. 'The fiend of pestilence' circles the globe; 2. Medical responses; 3. Cholera ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947; Part II. The Seventh Cholera Pandemic Strikes Africa: 5. Medical changes; 6. Seventh pandemic in Africa, 1971-2009; 7. Risk factors: environment and geography, armed conflicts and the dispersal of refugees; 8. Risk factors: public health policy choices among stable and weak states; 9. Zimbabwe, portrait of cholera in a failed state; 10. Cholera today. 
<br/><br/> "This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107001497 (hardback) 1107001498 (hardback) 9780521188203 (pbk.) 0521188202 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010037101 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101539153  DNLM 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cholera--History--Africa--19th century.<br/>Cholera--History--Africa--20th century.<br/>Cholera--History--Africa--21st century.<br/>Epidemics--History--Africa.<br/>Cholera--history--Africa.<br/>Disease Outbreaks--history--Africa.<br/>History, 19th Century--Africa.<br/>History, 20th Century--Africa.<br/>History, 21st Century--Africa.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA 644  / E18a  2011 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>614.5/14096