HIST 2460 - Health and Society in Africa

Hours: 4
This thematic course explores African social, cultural, and environmental history by investigating the history of health, disease, and disease control in Africa from c. 1500 to the present. The course explores the changing ways African people and states have conceived of, responded to, and tried to control changing patterns of health and disease. Topics covered include: pre-colonial environmental change & epidemic disease; rainmaking and social health; colonial epidemics and disease control; urban sanitation and segregation; agrarian change and famine; post-colonial epidemics (AIDS, TB, malaria); politics of health care in contemporary Africa. The theme of health gives students a central focus as the course challenges lines between human and natural environment, between individual and collective well-being, and between bodily and social health.

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HIST 2460 - Health and Society in Africa