Welcome! This guide is intended to be a one-stop starting point for resources for HIST:3755:0001 - Understanding Health & Disease in Africa (Prof. James Giblin, Fall 2016)
Class Texts: (In the library's Main Stacks or ONLINE - not in Reserve Section)
The African AIDS Epidemic by Call Number: At Main Library (RA643.86.A35 I43 2006 )ISBN: 9780821416891Publication Date: 2006-03-22
The Challenge for Africa by Call Number: At Main Library: (JQ1875 .M33 2009 )ISBN: 9780307390288Publication Date: 2010-10-19
Global Health in Africa by Call Number: ONLINE. Print copy also available at Main Library (RA545 .G56 2013)ISBN: 9780821420683Publication Date: 2013-11-05
The Politics of Polio in Northern Nigeria by Call Number: ONLINE: Print copy also available at Main Library (RA644.P9 R46 2010)ISBN: 9780253222282Publication Date: 2010-07-30
Your Pocket Is What Cures You by Call Number: ONLINE: Print copy also available at Main Library (GN296.5.S38 F65 2010)ISBN: 9780813546681Publication Date: 2009-12-03
Select e-books (Optional)
Moving People's Health Sovereignty in Africa by Call Number: ONLINE: A print copy is also available at Law Library (RA441 .M68 2014 )ISBN: 9781409450498Publication Date: 2014-09-29
The History of Blood Transfusion in Sub-Saharan Africa by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9780821444535Publication Date: 2013-01-01
HIV/AIDs in South Africa 25 Years On by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9781441903051Publication Date: 2009-10-06
Culture, Entertainment and Health Promotion in Africa by Call Number: ONLINEISBN: 9789966028006Publication Date: August, 2015
Pediatric doctors at Donka hospital, Conakry, Guinea, reviewing measles cases. Image Obtained Courtesy of flickr.com - Shared Under Creative Commons License
Nine month old baby receiving her measles vaccination in Ethiopia's Merawi province. Image Obtained Courtesy of flickr.com - Shared Under Creative Commons License
Sample Texts Available at the Main Library (Optional)
Black Death, White Medicine by Call Number: At Main Library (RC179.S38 E26 2002 )ISBN: 0325070172Publication Date: 2001-10-16
Borders and Healers by Call Number: At Main Library (GT497.A356 B67 2006 )ISBN: 0253346630Publication Date: 2006-02-02
Don't Let Them Die by Call Number: At Main Library (RA643.86.A35 A58 2006 )ISBN: 1905068247Publication Date: 2006-03-01
HIV/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa by Call Number: At Main Library (RA643.86.A25 H58 2009 )ISBN: 9789280811797Publication Date: 2009-11-09
Integrative Healthcare : A Guide to Meet the Needs of Africa by Call Number: At Main Library (RA395.A55 I68 2009 )ISBN: 0702180475Publication Date: 2009
Making and Unmaking Public Health in Africa by Call Number: At Main Library (RA552.A357 M35 2014 )ISBN: 9780821420577Publication Date: 2013-11-26
Medicine and Health in Africa by Call Number: At Main Library (RA545 .M45 2010 )ISBN: 9780870139918Publication Date: 2011-06-01
AIDS, Culture, and Africa by Call Number: At Main Library (RA643.86.A35 A345 2008 )ISBN: 9780813032535Publication Date: 2008-12-25
Ngoma by Call Number: At Main Library (GR358 .J36 1992 )ISBN: 0520072650Publication Date: 1992-10-21
A History of Traditional Medicine and Health Care in Pre-Colonial East-Central Africa by Call Number: At Main Library (R653.Z33 W35)ISBN: 0773497072Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Social Change and Health in Tanzania by Call Number: At Main Library: (RA418.3.T34 S635 2005)ISBN: 9976604068Publication Date: 2002-07-01
A Cure Too Far. the Struggle to End Hiv/Aids by Call Number: At Main Library: (RA643.86.U33 M84 2012)ISBN: 9789970251490Publication Date: 2013-12-01
Indigenous Medicine and Knowledge in African Society by Call Number: At Main Library: (GN645 .K65 2007)ISBN: 9780415956208Publication Date: 2007-03-01
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Media & Web Resources
- Art and Life in AfricaThe Art & Life in Africa website, hosted by the University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA), is a freely accessible educational resource that is the product of the collaborative efforts of more than fifty scholars, technicians, collectors and institutions around the world.
- Africa South of the SaharaThis is a Stanford University Libraries website that provides access to numerous resources about Africa, south of Sahara. You can browse it by country or by topic
