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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.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017.
©2017
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Description 1 online resource (237 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Translated from the French.
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject African trypanosomiasis -- Africa -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century.
African trypanosomiasis.
Africa.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject African trypanosomiasis -- Chemotherapy -- Complications -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
African trypanosomiasis -- Chemotherapy.
Pentamidine -- Side effects -- Africa.
Pentamidine.
Medicine, Preventive -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Medicine, Preventive.
Medical ethics -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
Medical ethics.
France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century.
France.
Colonies.
Africa.
France.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Médicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2016190121
Other Form: Print version: Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- Médicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English. Lomidine files. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017 9781421423234 (DLC) 2016051704 (OCoLC)962750182
ISBN 9781421423241 (electronic book)
1421423243 (electronic book)
9781421423234
1421423235

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