The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noemi Tousignant.
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TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (237 pages)Content type: - text
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- 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
- RA644 .L665 2017
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Translated from the French.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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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