The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa /
Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978-
The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noemi Tousignant. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (237 pages)
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.
9781421423241
African trypanosomiasis--Prevention--History--Africa--20th century.
African trypanosomiasis--Chemotherapy--Complications--History--Africa--20th century.
Pentamidine--Side effects--Africa.
Medicine, Preventive--History--Africa--20th century.
Medical ethics--History--Africa--20th century.
Pentamidine--adverse effects
Trypanosomiasis, African--drug therapy
Colonialism--history
Ethics, Medical--history
History, 20th Century
Electronic Books.
RA644 / .L665 2017
The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noemi Tousignant. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (237 pages)
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.
9781421423241
African trypanosomiasis--Prevention--History--Africa--20th century.
African trypanosomiasis--Chemotherapy--Complications--History--Africa--20th century.
Pentamidine--Side effects--Africa.
Medicine, Preventive--History--Africa--20th century.
Medical ethics--History--Africa--20th century.
Pentamidine--adverse effects
Trypanosomiasis, African--drug therapy
Colonialism--history
Ethics, Medical--history
History, 20th Century
Electronic Books.
RA644 / .L665 2017