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This book combines evidence from natural and social sciences to examine the impact on Africa of seven cholera pandemics since 1817, particularly the current impact of cholera on such major countries as Senegal, Angola, Mozambique, Congo, Zimbabwe and South Africa. Myron Echenberg highlights the irony that this once-terrible scourge, having receded from most of the globe, now kills thousands of Africans annually - Africa now accounts for more than 90 percent of the world's cases and deaths - and leaves many more with severe developmental impairment. Responsibility for the suffering caused is shared by Western lending and health institutions and by often venal and incompetent African leadership. If the threat of this old scourge is addressed with more urgency, great progress in the public health of Africans can be achieved.

Cholera --- Epidemics --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pandemics --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Asiatic cholera --- Cholera, Asiatic --- Vibrio infections --- History --- History. --- Outbreaks --- Arts and Humanities

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Animal diseases --- Communicable diseases --- Disease outbreaks --- zoonoses --- epidemiology --- veterinary

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The neurosciences are the new cutting edge in biomedicine, and this is the first book to take a sociological imagination to this field. The neurosciences are more than a collection of scientific practices they offer up new ways of thinking about mind, body and society. Up to now, debate about the new brain sciences has been limited within sociology. As the neurosciences gain ever more traction within professional arenas, policy processes and popular culture, it is time to go beyond the primarily speculative and theoretical analyses we have had to date, and bring our sociological imagination to bear. This collection addresses this need for sociological insight through empirically rich, theoretically innovative chapters that range across methods, traditions and foci in order to cast new light on the place, role and impact of neuroscience. At the same time, this volume reflects on the insights the neurosciences have to offer sociology. With cutting-edge contributions from leading scholars from Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, the UK and the USA, Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences will be a benchmark text in the new sociology of neuroscience.

Neurosciences -- Periodicals. --- Neurosciences. --- Epidemics -- Political aspects. --- Epidemics -- Social aspects. --- Epidemics --- Social medicine. --- Medical care --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public health --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Disease outbreaks --- Diseases --- Outbreaks of disease --- Pestilences --- Communicable diseases --- Social aspects. --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects --- Outbreaks --- Pandemics --- Social Medicine. --- Public Health --- Sociology of health --- Neurosciences

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Communicable Diseases. --- Endemic Diseases. --- Africa. --- Disease, Endemic --- Diseases, Endemic --- Endemic Disease --- Infectious Diseases --- Communicable Disease --- Disease, Communicable --- Disease, Infectious --- Diseases, Communicable --- Diseases, Infectious --- Infectious Disease --- Disease Outbreaks --- Disease Transmission, Infectious --- Communicable diseases --- Communicable Diseases --- Endemic Diseases --- Africa

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Communicable Diseases. --- Infectious Diseases --- Communicable Disease --- Disease, Communicable --- Disease, Infectious --- Diseases, Communicable --- Diseases, Infectious --- Infectious Disease --- Disease Outbreaks --- Disease Transmission, Infectious --- infectious diseases --- microbiology --- Communicable diseases --- Communicable diseases. --- Contagion and contagious diseases --- Contagious diseases --- Infectious diseases --- Microbial diseases in human beings --- Zymotic diseases --- Diseases --- Infection --- Epidemics