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Epidemiology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Public health -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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| Descript |
1 online resource. |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Temporalities: Beyond Transition -- 1 The Epidemiologic Transition Turned Upside Down: Britain's Mortality History as an Imaginative Resource for Africa -- 2 Contingent Futures, Continuous Pasts: Experts, Activists and Social and Disease Transitions (1950-80s) -- 3 Maternal Health, Epidemiology and Transition Theory in Africa -- 4 Pathologies of Modernisation: Epidemiological Imaginaries and the Smoking Epidemic in Postcolonial Africa |
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5 Sugar and Diabetes in Postwar South Africa -- Numbers and Categories -- 6 Validity of Measures for Chronic Disease in African Settings -- 7 Estimating and Monitoring the Burden of Non-Communicable and Chronic Diseases in Ghana -- Local Biologies and Knowledge Systems: 'New Diseases' in Context -- 8 The Para-Communicable: Living Between Infectious and Non-Communicable Conditions -- 9 Transitioning Societies: Non-Communicable Disease and 'The First 1000 Days' in South Africa -- 10 In Tandem: Breastfeeding Knowledge and Thinking from Southern Africa |
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11 Narrowed Passages, Increased Pressures: Adult Hypertension and Paediatric HIV in Botswana -- 12 Malignant Stories: The Chronicity of Cancer and the Pursuit of Care in Kenya -- Index -- Back Cover |
| Alt author |
Vaughan, Megan, 1954- editor.
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Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Kafui, editor.
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Mika, Marissa, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781787357044 (electronic bk.) |
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178735704X (electronic bk.) |
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9781787357075 (epub) |
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1787357074 (epub) |
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9781787357082 (mobi) |
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1787357082 (mobi) |
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9781787357051 (pbk.) |
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9781787357068 (hbk.) |
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