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

by Echenberg, Myron

• ISBN13: 9780852556467
• ISBN10: 0852556462
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: James Currey

Summary

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

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xv
Glossary	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Epidemics and French Colonial Medicine	p. 3
Background to the Senegalese Bubonic Plague Epidemics, 1880-1914	p. 15
"Take [a Job in Dakar] if You Want to Die": The Plague Epidemic of 1914	p. 49
Outbreak, April-May 1914	p. 51
Plague's Progress in Dakar, May-November 1914	p. 58
The Medical Response	p. 90
Measuring the Impact of the 1914 Epidemic	p. 115
Kooxa Dooma Ka: "Acute Headaches," 1919-38	p. 137
"The Plague Leaps out of the Ground": Plague Ecology in Senegal	p. 139
Visions of the Plague: The Rural Impact	p. 159
Plague in the City: Epidemics in Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis	p. 184
"Merely a Disease of Natives": Plague, War, and Politics, 1939-45	p. 211
The Dakar Plague Epidemic of 1944	p. 213
The Plague's Retreat after 1945	p. 255
The Statistical Picture	p. 267
Sources	p. 273
Index	p. 295
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