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This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in Uganda, the United States, and Europe over what research should be done, by whom, and where. The book covers colonial Uganda through the first years of Yoweri Museveni’s presidency.
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
PART I. YELLOW FEVER, 1936–1960
ONE Laboratory Life and Labor in Colonial Entebbe
TWO Tracking Viruses in the Field
PART II. BURKITT’S LYMPHOMA, 1961–1979
THREE Burkitt’s Lymphoma and the Invention of the Local Partner
FOUR Africanization and Negotiated Independence
FIVE The Burkitt’s Lymphoma Cohort Study in West Nile
PART III. HIV/AIDS, 1980–2000
SIX Ugandan Researchers and African AIDS
SEVEN When Local Results Contradict Global Consensus:
The Trial of STD Treatment for HIV PreventionConclusion :
Ebola, Zika, COVID-19, and Virus Research in Twenty-First-Century UgandaNotes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Julia Ross Cummiskey is an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Her research focuses on the history of global health research, policy, and practice in Africa.
Summary
This case study contextualizes calls to decolonize global health within a long history of negotiations between scientists based in Uganda, the United States, and Europe over what research should be done, by whom, and where. The book covers colonial Uganda through the first years of Yoweri Museveni’s presidency.
