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The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal, translated by Noémi Tousignant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Medicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Preventive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-2324-3
- OCLC:
- 1006728006
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