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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Main Author: Mashingaidze, Terence M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1358
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