Title: Black death, white medicine :
Authors: Echenberg, Myron J.
Date: 2002
Publisher: Heinemann :
Physical description: xviii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: Examines the social and political contexts of bubonic plague in colonial Senegal from 1914 to 1945.
Contents: Introduction -- Epidemics and French colonial medicine -- Background to the Senegalese bubonic plague epidemics, 1880-1914 -- pt. 1. "Take [a job in Dakar] if you want to die" : the plague epidemic of 1914 -- Outbreak, April-May 1914 -- Plague's progress in Dakar, May-November 1914 -- The medical response -- Measuring the impact of the 1914 epidemic -- pt. 2. Kooxa Dooma Ka : "acute headaches," 1919-38 -- "The plague leaps out of the ground" : plague ecology in Senegal -- Visions of the plague : the rural impact -- Plague in the city : epidemics in Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis -- pt. 3. "Merely a disease of natives" : plague, war, and politics, 1939-45 -- The Dakar plague epidemic of 1944 -- The plague's retreat after 1945 -- Appendix: the statistical picture.
Subject headings (LCSH): Black Death--Social aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.; Imperialism--Health aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.; Plague--Social aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.; Public health--Political aspects--Senegal--History--20th century.