Author: French West Africa
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Category : Mali
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Author: Barbara M. Cooper
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025304202X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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A study of pregnancy and childbirth customs in Niger, and how it has both a high fertility rate and high rates of maternal and infant mortality. How do women in Niger experience pregnancy and childbirth differently from women in the United States or Europe? Barbara M. Cooper sets out to understand childbirth in a country with the world’s highest fertility rate and an alarmingly high rate of maternal and infant mortality. Cooper shows how the environment, slavery and abolition, French military rule, and the rapid expansion of Islam have all influenced childbirth and fertility in Niger from the nineteenth century to the present day. She sketches a landscape where fear of infertility generates intense competition between communities, ethnicities, and co-wives and creates a culture where concerns about infertility dominate concerns about overpopulation, where illegitimate children are rejected, and where the education of girls is sacrificed in the name of avoiding shame. Given a medical system poorly adapted to women’s needs, a precarious economy, and a political context where it is impossible to address sexuality openly, Cooper discovers that it is little wonder that pregnancy and birth are a woman’s greatest pride as well as a source of grave danger. “Beautifully written, insightful, and full of empathy. A must read for anyone seeking to understand the damaging consequences of neglecting women’s and infants’ health.” —Johanna Schoen, author of Abortion after Roe “Few experiences are more potent than reproduction. Countless Blessings brilliantly unwinds the full import of this potency, tracing a history of demography, bodily peril, parental joy, and social, religious, and political meaning. Cooper’s tremendous skill and creativity as a scholar enable us to see the political stakes of reproduction, even as they are grounded in the intimacies of embodied experience.” —Julie Livingston, author of Self-Devouring Growth: A Planetary Parable as Told from Southern Africa “Countless Blessings shows how women in Niger and in West Africa have long navigated the various states of social value, personhood, spirituality, and childbirth, and it paints a remarkable picture of how contested and embodied the social and material concerns of childbirth remain for women today.” —Ampson Hagan, Univeristy of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, IJAHS

Author: Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature and History
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 954

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Author: Sleeping sickness bureau, London
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Category : Epidemic encephalitis
Languages : en
Pages : 530

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Author: United States. Bureau of Animal Industry. Zoological Division
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Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1222

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Includes proceedings of the association, papers read at the annual sessions, and lists of current medical literature.

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Publisher: KARTHALA Editions
ISBN: 9782845867840
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : fr
Pages : 182

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Author: Philip D. Curtin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521598354
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Before the nineteenth century, European soldiers serving in the tropics died from disease at a rate several times higher than that of soldiers serving at home. Then, from about 1815 to 1914, the death rates of European soliders, both those serving at home and abroad, dropped by nearly 90%. But this drop applied mainly to soliders in barracks. Soldiers on campaign, especially in the tropics, continued to die from disease at rates as high as ever, in sharp contrast to the drop in barracks death rates. This book, first published in 1998, examines the practice of military medicine during the conquest of Africa, especially in the 1880s and 1890s. Curtin examines what was done, what was not done, and the impact of doctors' successes and failures on the willingness of Europeans to embark on imperial adventures.

Author: Philip D. Curtin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521389228
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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This book is a quantitative study of relocation costs among European soldiers in the tropics from 1815 to 1914.

Author: Albert Hassell
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Category : Parasites
Languages : en
Pages : 1482

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