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

Tracing the nightmarish effects of the "wonder drug¿ Lomidine in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Guillaume Lachenal is an associate professor in the history of science at the University Paris Diderot. He is the author of Le médecin qui voulut être roi: Sur les traces d’une utopie coloniale.Noémi R. Tousignant is an affiliate member of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University and a guest researcher in history at the Université de Montréal. She is coeditor of Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty-First Century Africa.

Zusammenfassung

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.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Guillaume Lachenal, Guillaume (Associate Professor At Univer Lachenal, Guillaume (Associate Professor at Universite Paris Diderot) Lachenal, Guillaume/ Tousignant Lachenal
• Mitarbeit: Noemi Tousignant (Übersetzung), Noémi Tousignant (Übersetzung), Noemi R. Tousignant (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781421423234
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2323-4
• Seiten: 240
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Neuzeit bis 1918; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Nichtklinische Fächer; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Sonstiges; Geschichte der Medizin, Rechtsmedizin, Forensik, MEDICAL / Public Health, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Anthropology, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, MEDICAL / History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, MEDICAL / Forensic Medicine, Medical / Nursing, Colonialism & imperialism, History of Medicine, Pharmacology, Public health & preventive medicine, Colonialism and imperialism, Public health and preventive medicine