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.

About the author

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.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Guillaume Lachenal, Guillaume (Associate Professor At Univer Lachenal, Guillaume (Associate Professor at Universite Paris Diderot) Lachenal, Guillaume/ Tousignant Lachenal
• Assisted by: Noemi Tousignant (Translation), Noémi Tousignant (Translation), Noemi R. Tousignant (Translation)
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781421423234
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2323-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; 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