Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960

Authors: João Dinis Sousa, Philip J Havik, Anne-Mieke Vandamme
Publication Year: 2021
Journal: Medical History, 65(2), pp 178 - 196
Link: https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.11

ABSTRACT During the colonial period sexually transmitted infections (STIs) came to be recognised as a major public health problem in African cities. Thus, STI control and urban modernisation became deeply entangled as authorities redrew spatial and social boundaries to manage populations and their cross-cultural interaction. Public health measures, urban planning and policing were part of […]
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Public Health, Social Medicine and Disease Control: Medical Services, Maternal Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Former Portuguese West Africa (1920–63)

Authors: Havik PJ
Publication Year: 2018
Journal: Medical History
Link: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30191784

Authors: Havik PJ
Publication Year: 2016
Journal: Medical History
Link: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/medical-history/article/hybridising-medicine-illness-healing-and-the-dynamics-of-reciprocal-exchange-on-the-upper-guinea-coast-west-africa/AE48F7186EA20618774F185136526525

Hybridising Medicine The present article seeks to fill a number of lacunae with regard to the study of the circulation and assimilation of different bodies of medical knowledge in an important cultural contact zone, that is the Upper Guinea Coast. Building upon ongoing research on trade and cultural brokerage in the area, it focuses upon […]
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Sexually transmitted infections, their treatment and urban change in colonial Leopoldville, 1910–1960

Public Health, Social Medicine and Disease Control: Medical Services, Maternal Care and Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Former Portuguese West Africa (1920–63)

Hybridising Medicine: Illness, Healing and the Dynamics of Reciprocal Exchange on the Upper Guinea Coast (West Africa)

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