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Disease in African history : an introductory survey and case studies / Mario Joaquim Azevedo ... [et al.] ; edited by Gerald W. Hartwig and K. David Patterson.

Title
Disease in African history : an introductory survey and case studies / Mario Joaquim Azevedo ... [et al.] ; edited by Gerald W. Hartwig and K. David Patterson.
Publication
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1978.

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  • Azevedo, Mario Joaquim
  • Hartwig, Gerald W.
  • Patterson, K. David (Karl David), 1941-
Description
xiv, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
[Publication] - Duke University Center for Commonwealth and Comparative Studies ; no. 44
Uniform Title
Duke University Center for Commonwealth and Comparative Studies (Series) no. 44.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [238]-250.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The disease factor : an introductory overview / K. David Patterson and Gerald W. Hartwig -- Social consequences of epidemic diseases: the nineteenth century in Eastern Africa / Gerald W. Hartwig -- Man, milieu, and the disease factor : tick-borne relapsing fever in east Africa / Charles M. Good -- River blindness in northern Ghana, 1900-50 / K. David Patterson -- Epidemic disease among the Sara of southern Chad, 1940 / Mario Joaquim Azevedo -- Health and disease on the plantations of Cameroon, 1884-1939 / Mark W. DeLancy -- Increased intercommunication and epidemic disease in early colonial Ashanti / James W. Brown -- Louse-borne relapsing fever in Sudan, 1908-51 / Gerald W. Hartwig -- Bibliographical essay / K. David Patterson.
ISBN
0822304104 :
LCCN
^^^78052421^//r852
OCLC
  • 4607348
  • SCSB-14247235
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