The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / / Guillaume Lachenal, translated by Noémi Tousignant
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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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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2017] |
| ©2017 | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (p. ) |
| Disciplina: | 614.533 |
| Soggetto topico: | Medicine, Preventive |
| Persona (resp. second.): | TousignantNoémi |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Lomidine files |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-2324-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910794757603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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