Epidemics

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

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Howard Phillips

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Ohio Short Histories of Africa

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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.

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Howard Phillips is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he pioneered research in and the teaching of the social history of medicine and disease. He is the author or coauthor of numerous works, including “Black October”: The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa.

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September 12th, 2012

Author

Howard Phillips

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

168

Series

Ohio Short Histories of Africa

Dimensions

107x178x13

ISBN-13

9780821420287

Product ID

20245637

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