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Author:

Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- author.

Title:

The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noemi Tousignant.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

237 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

African trypanosomiasis--Africa--History--History--20th century.
African trypanosomiasis--History--Complications--Africa--History--20th century.
Pentamidine--Side effects--Africa.
Medicine, Preventive--Africa--History--20th century.
Medical ethics--Africa--History--20th century.
France--History--Africa--History--20th century.
Pentamidine--adverse effects.
Trypanosomiasis, African--drug therapy.
Colonialism--history.
Ethics, Medical--history.
History, 20th Century.
Africa.
France.

Other Titles:

Medicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English

Notes:

Translated from the French. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The wonder drug -- Experimentations without borders -- The new deal of colonial medicine -- The spectacle of eradication -- Race, pentamidine and the individual -- Good citizens and bad brothers -- Yokadouma, Cameroon, November-December 1954 -- "We cried without making a palaver" -- The misfirings of the imperial machine -- The swan song of eradication -- How the drug became useless and dangerous -- Epilogue.

ISBN:

1421423235
9781421423234

OCLC:

(OCoLC)962750182

LCCN:

2016051704

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)