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_aRA644.T69 _bL96 1992 |
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_aLyons, Maryinez, _eauthor. |
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_aThe colonial disease : _ba social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940 / _cMaryinez Lyons. |
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_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c1992. |
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_a1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s). |
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_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier |
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| 490 | 1 | _aCambridge studies in the history of medicine | |
| 500 | _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). | ||
| 520 | _aThe 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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_aAfrican trypanosomiasis _zCongo (Democratic Republic) _xHistory. |
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_aSocial medicine _zCongo (Democratic Republic) _xHistory. |
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_iPrint version: _z9780521403504 |
| 830 | 0 | _aCambridge studies in the history of medicine. | |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511583704 |
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