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The colonial disease : : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940. / Maryinez Lyons

Tác giả : Maryinez Lyons

Nhà xuất bản : Cambridge University Press

Năm xuất bản : 1992

Nơi xuất bản : Cambridge

Mô tả vật lý : xiv,335p. : ill., maps,ports. ; 24 cm

ISBN : 0521524520

Số phân loại : 614.533

Chủ đề : 1. Bệnh buồn ngủ nhiệt đới -- Lịch sử -- Côngô (Cộng hòa dân chủ). 2. Y học xã hội -- Lịch sử -- Côngô (Cộng hòa dân chủ). 3. African trypanosomiasis -- History -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 4. Social medicine -- History -- Congo (Democratic Republic). 5. Bệnh buồn ngủ. 6. Bệnh thuộc địa.

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The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of western bio-medicine as a central feature of their 'gift' to Africans. By 1930, however, it was clear that some features of their 'civilising mission' were in fact closely connected to the poor health of many of the Congolese. The Europeans had indeed brought scientific enquiry and western bio-medicine; but they had also introduced a harsh, repressive political system which, coupled with a ruthlessly exploitative economic system, led to the introduction of new diseases while already-existing diseases were exacerbated and spread. Tropical, or 'colonial', medicine was a new field at the turn of the century, linked closely both to European expansionism and human trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness. In 1901 a devastating epidemic had erupted in Uganda, killing well over 250,000 people.

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