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Autore |
Lachenal Guillaume <1978-> |
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Titolo |
The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / / Guillaume Lachenal, translated by Noémi Tousignant |
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Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2017] |
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©2017 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 much palavers" -- The misfirings of the imperial machine -- To eradicate, future perfect -- How the drug became useless and dangerous -- Epilogue. |
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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. |
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