Epidemics Phillips Howard
Epidemics Phillips Howard This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. The impacts of these epidemics ranged…
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Epidemics Phillips Howard
This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa, lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. 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. 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.
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
Epidemics Phillips Howard