Table of Contents

The Infectious Continent: Africa, Disease, and the Western Imagination - Sophie Wertheimer
Waterborne Diseases and Urban Water Supply in Makurdi, Nigeria, 1927-60 - Akpen Philip
Smallpox and Social Control in Colonial Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1850-1916 - Kalala Ngalamulume
Poor Man's Trouble, Rich Man's Graveyard: A Study of Malaria and Epidemiological Sciences since the Nineteenth Century - Raphael Chijioke Njoku
Perceptions of Epilepsy in a Traditional Society: An Akan (Ghana) Family's Experience - Dr. Cecilia Obeng
Disability in Nigeria - Gabriel B. Fosu-Ph.D. Scientific Rev Admi and Prof. Willie Lamouse-Smith and Baffour K. Takyi-Associate Prof. and Stephen Obeng-Manu Gyimah
The Microbial Rebellion: Trends and Containment of Antimicrobial Resistance in Africa - Iruka N. Okeke
Development and Epidemiologic Transition in Sub-Saharan Africa - Frank D.F. Dadzie and Melissa K. Van Dyke
The Economic Burden of Buruli Ulcer Disease on Households in Rural Ghana - Frank D.F. Dadzie and Gerald A. Mumma
Health Issues in a Mining Community in South Africa - Freek Cronjé and Charity Chenga
Globalization, Health, and the Hajj: The West African Pilgrimage Scheme, 1919-38 - Matthew Heaton
Of Savages and Mass Killing: HIV/AIDS, Africa and the Crisis of Global Health Governance - Obi Aginam
Vicissitudes of AIDS Policies in Burkina Faso from 1985 to 2001: A Historical Perspective - Yacouba Banhoro
Factors Associated with Deliberate Attempts to Transmit HIV Infection among Persons Living with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania - William N. Mkanta
Development and Alternative Mitigation Treatment Opportunities of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Richard Beilock
Development and Alternative Mitigation Treatment Opportunities of the HIV/AIDS Epidemic - Kaley Creswell
Confusion, Anger, and Denial: Results of HIV/AIDS Focus Group Discussions with Urban Adult Zimbabweans - Mandi Chikombero
Three Proposals for Analyzing the Economic Growth Effects of HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa - Richard Beilock

About the Author

TOYIN FALOLA is Professor of History, University Distinguished Teaching Professor, and the Jacob and Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas at Austin. Kalala Ngalamulume is Associate Professor of History of Bryn Mawr, and author of Colonial Pathologies, Environment, and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 (2012). RAPHAEL CHIJIOKE NJOKU is professor of history at Idaho State University.

Reviews

Among the book's obvious strengths are that it includes contributions from African as well as non-African scholars and that it approaches its subject from different disciplinary perspectives, ranging from biology over economy and sociology to history. Volume 50, 2009
*JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORY*

HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being links history, cultural exchange, economic exploitation, and diseases across Africa in a very interesting and holistic manner that captivates the reader. . . By presenting Africa's health issues in the context of its past socioeconomic practices, the book leads readers to envision better health outcomes that could have been based on the best of traditional and westernized Africa.
*SCIENCE, March 7, 2008*

Falola and Heaton have edited a timely and useful book that will be of crucial interdisciplinary benefit to a wide spectrum of scholars and students, and to the general reader. The carefully selected contributors have produced essays on the HIV/AIDS pandemic and its vast implications, providing a scholarly gateway to the disease's further study in Africa and other developing societies. --
*A.B. Assensoh, Professor of African American and African Diaspora Studies, Indiana University-Bloomington*

HIV/AIDS, Illness, and African Well-Being is the most ambitious and refreshing work to date on the history of health and society in Africa. By the breadth of its canvas; its lively narrative; and its judicious and compelling analysis of contingent cultural, economic, and policy issues, this densely woven book will have wide disciplinary appeal to historians, social scientists, and public health and medical practitioners alike. It will remain the most authoritative scholarship on African health and medicine for many years to come. --
*George Ndege, Department of History, and the African American Program, Saint Louis University*

Falola, Heaton, and their associated contributors have made a profound contribution to our understanding of HIV/AIDS in Africa. By addressing this difficult topic in historical and global context, and by keeping a constant eye to African understandings and perspectives towards disease, the editors and authors provide insights that are both scholarly and profoundly human. This is African Studies, and interdisciplinarity, done right!' --
*Jonathan T. Reynolds, Department of History and Geography, Northern Kentucky University*