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.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Guillaume Lachenal, Guillaume (Associate Professor At Univer Lachenal, Guillaume (Associate Professor at Universite Paris Diderot) Lachenal, Guillaume/ Tousignant Lachenal
• Con la collaborazione di: Noemi Tousignant (Traduzione), Noémi Tousignant (Traduzione), Noemi R. Tousignant (Traduzione)
• Editore: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781421423234
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-2323-4
• Pagine: 240
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Branche non cliniche; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Età moderna fino al 1918; 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