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The Lomidine Files The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
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Uniform Title
Médicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English
Title
The Lomidine Files [electronic resource] : The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noemi Tousignant.
ISBN
1421423243
9781421423241
1421423235 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781421423234 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (p. )
Local Notes
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Notes
Translation of: Le medicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique : un scandale pharmaceutique aux colonies / Guillaume Lachenal. Paris : La Decouverte, 2014.
Description based on print version record.
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Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - 2017 African Studies.
Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 History.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 27, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 much palavers"
The misfirings of the imperial machine
To eradicate, future perfect
How the drug became useless and dangerous
Epilogue.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Trypanosomiasis, African - drug therapy.
History, 20th Century.
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