The Lomidine Files : The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medicine, Preventive.
Medical ethics.
French colonies.
African trypanosomiasis > Prevention.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Preventive Medicine.
MEDICAL > Forensic Medicine.
Medecine > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Éthique medicale > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Medecine preventive > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Pentamidine > Effets secondaires > Afrique.
Trypanosomiase africaine > Chimiotherapie > Complications et sequelles > Afrique > Histoire > 20e siecle.
History, 20th Century
Ethics, Medical > history
Colonialism > history
Trypanosomiasis, African > drug therapy
Pentamidine > adverse effects
Medical ethics > Africa > History > 20th century.
Medicine, Preventive > Africa > History > 20th century.
Pentamidine > Side effects > Africa.
African trypanosomiasis > Chemotherapy > Complications > Africa > History > 20th century.
African trypanosomiasis > Africa > Prevention > History > 20th century.
Africa.
Afrique.
France
Africa
France > Colonies > Africa > History > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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