Epidemics : the story of South Africa's five most lethal human diseases / Howard Phillips.
Series: Ohio short histories of AfricaPublication details: Athens : Ohio University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (168 pages :) : illustrationsContent type:- text
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- online resource
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- Story of South Africa's five most lethal human diseases
- Epidemics -- South Africa -- History
- Diseases and history -- South Africa
- MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine
- MEDICAL -- Public Health
- HISTORY -- General
- Diseases and history
- Epidemics
- South Africa
- HIV Infections -- history
- Epidemics -- history
- Smallpox -- history
- Plague -- history
- Influenza, Human -- history
- Poliomyelitis -- history
- South Africa
- 614.4/968 23
- RA650.8.S6 P49 2012
- 2012 I-549
- WA 105
- digitized 2011 committed to preserve
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"First published as Plague, Pox and Pandemics by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2012."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Smallpox, 1713/1893: 'There are no people left, only stones' -- Plague, 1901/1907: 'The dreaded disorder' -- Spanish flu, 1918/1919: 'It threatens the existence of the entire race' -- Poliomyelitis, 1918/1963: 'The middle-class plague' -- HIV/AIDS, 1982/ : 'A catastrophe in slow motion' -- Conclusion.
"This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between 1713 and today--smallpox, bubonic plague, "Spanish influenza," polio, and HIV/AIDS--the book probes their origins, their catastrophic courses, and their consequences in both the short and long terms. The impacts of these epidemics ranged from the demographic--the "Spanish flu," for instance, claimed the lives of 6 percent of the country's population in six weeks--to the political, the social, the economic, the spiritual, the psychological, and the cultural. Moreover, as each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history--such as during the South African War and World War I--the book also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. To those who read this book, history will not look the same again."--Project Muse.
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011. MiAaHDL