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

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

Phillips, Howard

Paperback

Series: Ohio Short Histories of Africa

Medical ReferenceAfrican History

ISBN10: 0821420283
ISBN13: 9780821420287
Publisher: Ohio Univ Pr
Published: Sep 12 2012
Pages: 168
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 4.20 Depth: 7.00
Language: English

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 six 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.

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