The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa /

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Ultimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control but as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Temas:
1900-1999
African trypanosomiasis > Africa > Prevention > History > 20th century.
African trypanosomiasis > Chemotherapy > Complications > Africa > History > 20th century.
Pentamidine > Side effects > Africa.
Medicine, Preventive > Africa > History > 20th century.
Medical ethics > Africa > History > 20th century.
Pentamidine > adverse effects
Trypanosomiasis, African > drug therapy
Colonialism > history
Ethics, Medical > history
History, 20th Century
Trypanosomiase africaine > Chimiothérapie > Complications et séquelles > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Pentamidine > Effets secondaires > Afrique.
Médecine préventive > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Éthique médicale > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Médecine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
African trypanosomiasis > Prevention.
French colonies.
Medical ethics.
Medicine, Preventive.
France > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
Africa.
Africa
France
Afrique.
Electronic books.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The wonder drug
  • Experimentations without borders
  • The new deal of colonial medicine
  • The spectacle of eradication
  • Race, pentamidine and the individual
  • Good citizens and bad brothers
  • Yokadouma, Cameroon, November-December 1954
  • "We cried without making a palaver"
  • The misfirings of the imperial machine
  • The swan song of eradication
  • How the drug became useless and dangerous
  • Epilogue.

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