Machine derived contents note: List of maps -- List of plates -- List of tables -- Preface -- List of abbreviations -- 1. Disease and medicine in the history of Africa -- 2. From private empire to public colony -- 3. Mise en valeur: economic exploitation -- 4. Epidemiology and ecology of human sleeping sickness -- 5. 'The lure of the exotic': sleeping sickness, tropical medicine and imperilaism -- 6. Discovery: Liverpool scientists in the Congo -- 7. The campaign, part one: sleeping sickness and social medicine -- 8. The campaign, part two: the surveys and tensions -- 9. The African response -- 10. Public health, social engineering and African lives -- 11. Conclusion and legacy -- Appendices -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Analysis
Humans Trypanosomiasis History
Zaire
Humans Trypanosomiasis History
Zaire
Notes
Paperback ed. published 2002
Revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis
Revision of the author's Ph.D. thesis
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [296]-328) and index
