Power, disease and prejudice: a historiographical overview of the syphilis contagion in colonial sub-Saharan Africa, 1890s – 1950s
This article maps out the coordinates on syphilis, a major public health concern to colonial administrators, biomedical authorities and mine owners in much of sub-Saharan Africa in the first half of the twentieth century. I argue that colonial responses to syphilis reveal that therapeutic systems an...
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2016
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1358 |
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