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Author:
Elliott, Denielle A. (Denielle Aschell), author.
Title:
Reimagining science and statecraft in postcolonial Kenya : stories from an African scientist / Denielle Elliott with Davy Kiprotich Koech.
Publisher:
Routledge,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subject:
Koech, D. K.--(Davy Kiprotich)
Kenya Medical Research Institute--History.
Kenya Medical Research Institute.
Kenya Medical Research Institute.
Medicine--History.--Kenya--History.
Scientists--Kenya--Biography.
Medical research personnel--Kenya--Biography.
Medical research personnel.
Medicine--Research.
Scientists.
Kenya.
Research.
Kenya.
Biographies.
History.
Other Authors:
Koech, D. K. (Davy Kiprotich), author.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [216]-223) and index.
Contents:
The art of storytelling/Stories of science: an introduction -- Daudi -- Colonial administration -- Soliat Primary School -- Growing up during independence -- Hospitalization -- Student life and education reforms -- Kericho Tea Hotel -- On becoming a scientist -- Siberia -- HLA tissue-typing and kidney transplants in Kenya -- Science and Technology Amendmendment Act -- Daniel Arap Moi -- National politics -- The Kenya Medical Research Institute -- Japan -- Division of Vector Borne Diseases -- Wellcome Trust -- Walter Reed Project/US Army Research Unit -- The US Embassy and the CDC -- The KEMRON trial -- Saba Saba and the KEMRON results -- Kinshasa and racial politics -- A son's death -- Collaborative agreements and fiscal irregularities -- The accusations -- Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission -- The arrest -- Corporate executive -- Faith -- Epilogue by Davy Kiprotich Koech.
Series:
Routledge contemporary Africa series
ISBN:
1138059129
9781138059122
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1037885209
LCCN:
2018018226
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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