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| Campus | Bryn Mawr |
| Semester | Spring 2025 |
| Registration ID | HISTB337001 |
| Course Title | Topics in African History-Cities, Epidemics, Pandemics |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Health Studies |
| Instructor | Ngalamulume,Kalala J. |
| Times and Days | W 02:10pm-04:00pm
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| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2973 This is a topics course. Topics vary.; Current topic description: In recent decades, the world has experienced an increasing threat for public health from the emerging infectious diseases that have provoked epidemics and pandemics. The course will focus on the impact of epidemics and pandemics on cities in Africa. We will discuss the issues of public health history, social and cultural history of disease as well as the issues of the history of medicine. We will examine the histories of global initiatives to control disease in Africa from an interdisciplinary perspective (history, and social and biomedical sciences), using case studies from across the continent. We will explore various themes, such as the anxiety and panic caused by the disease outbreaks; the state, medical, and popular responses; the politics of disease control; the conflicts of interests between the interests of commerce, public health and civil liberties; and the health disparities within cities. We will focus on the colonial and postcolonial cities in Africa. We will also explore the questions regarding the sources of African history and their quality. Haverford: B: Analysis of the Social World (B), Social Science (SO) . |
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