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Epidemics

Epidemics

The Story of South Africa's Five Most Lethal Human Diseases

by Howard Phillips
Paperback
Publication Date: 12/09/2012

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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, u201cSpanish influenza,u201d 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 u201cSpanish flu,u201d 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.
ISBN:
9780821420287
9780821420287
Category:
Epidemiology & medical statistics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
12-09-2012
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ohio University Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
168
Dimensions (mm):
178x114x13mm
Weight:
0.14kg

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