The Politics of Disease Control

Sleeping Sickness in Eastern Africa, 1890–1920

Mari K. Webel (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

2019
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2399-8 (ISBN)

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A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past.
Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change.

Mari K. Webel is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh. She is a specialist in modern African history and the histories of public health, healing, and medicine.

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I THE SSESE ISLANDS, C. 1890–1907

The Ssese Islands, c. 1890: An Overview

Chapter 1 Finding Sleeping Sickness on the Ssese Islands

Chapter 2 Healing Mongota, Treating Trypanosomiasis Research on the Ssese Islands

PART II THE KINGDOM OF KIZIBA, C. 1890–1914

The Kingdom of Kiziba, c. 1890: An Overview

Chapter 3 The Prince and the Plague Politics, Public Health, and Rubunga in Kiziba

Chapter 4 Gland-Feelers, Elusive Patients, and the Kigarama Camp

PART III THE SOUTHERN IMBO, C. 1890–1914

The Southern Imbo, c. 1890: An Overview

Chapter 5 Mobility, Illness, and Colonial Public Health on the Tanganyika Littoral

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2019
Reihe/Serie	New African Histories
Verlagsort	Athens
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
ISBN-10	0-8214-2399-1 / 0821423991
ISBN-13	978-0-8214-2399-8 / 9780821423998
Zustand	Neuware