History of health and disease in Africa
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This post, on the Arc-Medieval, Global Medieval Studies blog, recounts my experiences teaching my undergraduate course, "The Black Death: Pandemic Disease in the Medieval World." Over the course of the past decade and a half, there has... more
Malaria fand um 1900 eine enorme Beachtung durch europäische Kolonialmächte und Mediziner, galt sie doch als Bedrohung für den "weißen Mann" und sein koloniales Projekt. Malaria kam damals aber auch in Teilen Deutschlands vor. Manuela... more
This study is an analysis of the slave experience, with particular focus on the multiple characteristics of health and disease, in the Cantagalo region of the Rio de Janeiro Paraíba Valley, an important coffee plantation area, between the... more
Section III . Science meets historical disease environments 7 Environments of Health and Disease in Tropical Africa before the Colonial Era Gérard Chouin ORCID ID: 0000-0001-8885-6919 Abstract A long-standing narrative that has its... more
This dissertation will discuss the analytical possibilities - for the universe of the slavery thematic in Brazil - approaches about slavery, death and disease. With the analysis of the diseases that used to struck the captives of the... more
Nombre d'auteurs ont remis en cause la manière de l'OMS de conduire la question du SIDA au cours des années 1980 et 1990, sans expliquer de manière substantielle pourquoi l'OMS a été sujette à des erreurs. Nous avons tenté de comprendre... more
While both human and animal trypanosomiasis continue to present as major human and animal public health constraints globally, detailed analyses of trypanosome wildlife reservoir hosts remain sparse. African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT)... more
Autorzy: Jarosław Różański, Ambroży Andrzejak
Editor Invited Book Review of Chorev, Nitsan. Give and take: developmental foreign aid and the pharmaceutical industry in East Africa. xiv, 305 pp., bibliogr. Princeton: Univ. Press, 2019.
This course explores African ideas of health and disease in the modern historical era (1500-Present) through a variety of human and animal diseases. The course repeatedly asks students to consider (and reconsider) why African societies... more
This paper offers a new perspective on historical understandings of the relationship between alcohol, climate and the body, by studying the way that British explorers of tropical Africa drank alcohol and wrote about drink between c.1850... more
This article presents the first reflections of the research in progress regarding the enslaved experiences relative to the illness and the death. Through a approach compared on unhealthy, enslaved mortality and sociabilities in Brazil and... more
Abbiamo aperto il cantiere per un numero di "Zapruder" dedicato a #epidemie e #conflitti, curato da Giovanni Pietrangeli, Luisa Renzo (PhD) e da me. Questo è l'abstract che abbiamo approvato nell'assemblea annuale di Storie in... more
In this article I analyze the experiences of slavery built from the relations between land, labor and the slave protests consolidated in the coffee plantations landscapes of the Vale do Paraíba fluminense. I problematize aspects of the... more
While both human and animal trypanosomiasis continue to present as major human and animal public health constraints globally, detailed analyses of trypanosome wildlife reservoir hosts remain sparse. African animal trypanosomiasis (AAT)... more
For more on new scientific understandings of leprosy that are informing our analysis, see this article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/01/science/leprosy-still-claiming-victims.html.
Webinar 9 May 2022 The surveillance of HIV/AIDS epidemic
HIV/AIDS emergency and UN technical and financial assistance through partnerships. A successful history?
HIV/AIDS emergency and UN technical and financial assistance through partnerships. A successful history?
En 1901, la première léproserie éthiopienne voit le jour à Harar sous le nom de « Saint-Antoine ». Cette initiative missionnaire, consolidée par la présence du docteur Jean Féron, marque le point de départ d’une nouvelle conception de la... more
Social factors play key roles in health outcomes, both in the present and in the past. Many models of health data suggest that as economic inequalities grow, so too do health inequalities. In fact, many scholars take for granted a direct... more