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Gerald W. Hartwig and K. David Patterson, eds. Disease in African History: An Introductory Survey and Case Studies. Durham, N. C.: Duke University Press, 1978. xiv + 255 pp. Maps, tables, figures, notes, bibliography, index. $13.75. - Robert F. Stock. Cholera in Africa. Diffusion of the Disease 1970-75 with Particular Emphasis on West Africa. London: International African Institute, 1976. vii + 127 pp. Maps, figures, tables, appendices, bibliography. $8.50. - Edward S. Ayensu. Medicinal Plants of West Africa. Algonac, Mich.: Reference Publications, Inc., 1978. 330 pp. Maps, illustrations, plates, glossary, bibliography, index. $29.95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 June 2016

Dennis G. Carlson
Dennis G. Carlson*
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Program in the Humanities and Public Health, School of Hygieneand Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
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Health, Disease, and Society
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ASA Review of Books , Volume 6 , 1980 , pp. 140 - 147
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1980

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References

1. Excellent examples of this optimal synthesis of social and medical history can be found in medical historiography such as the following: Sigerist, Henry E., Civilization and Disease (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1943)Google Scholar; Temkin, Owsei, The Falling Sickness, a History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, 2nd ed., rev. (Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971)Google Scholar; and Rosen, George, Madness in Society: Chapters in the Historical Sociology of Mental Illness (New York and Evanston: Harper and Row Publishers, 1968)Google Scholar.

2. The Promotion and Development of Traditional Medicine: Report of a WHO Meeting, Technical Report Series 622 (Geneva: World Health Organization, 1978).

3. Winterbottom, Thomas, An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighborhood of Sierra Leone to Which Is Added an Account of the Present State of Medicine Among Them (London: Whittingham, 1803), p. 17 Google Scholar.