Egypt's Other Wars: Epidemics and the Politics of Public Health (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780815625070)

Three devastating epidemics swept Egypt in the 1940's killing more people than all the wars Egypt has fought in the twentieth century. Egypt's Other Wars vividly reconstructs the nation's struggle against malaria, relapsing fever, and cholera and explores the unique combination of forces that put public health at the top of the national political agenda.

Egypt in the 1940's as in the throes of a nationalist upheaval. Nationalists of all political ideologies attributed the sever epidemics that the country was experiencing to Egypt's status as an underdeveloped and colonized nation. The epidemics were therefore viewed for the first time as not only a public health crisis but also a political problem that called for a political solution.

Author: Nancy Gallagher
ISBN-10: 0815625073
ISBN-13: 9780815625070
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1990
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.18h x 6.00w x 0.83d