The Lomidine files : the untold story of a medical disaster in colonial Africa / Guillaume Lachenal ; translated by Noemi Tousignant.
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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| Other title: | Médicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English |
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| Language: | English French |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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