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

By: Lachenal, Guillaume, 1978- [author.].
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017Description: 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781421423234.Uniform titles: Medicament qui devait sauver l'Afrique. English Subject(s): African trypanosomiasis -- Africa -- Prevention -- History -- 20th century | African trypanosomiasis -- Chemotherapy -- Complications -- Africa -- History -- 20th century | Pentamidine -- Side effects -- Africa | Medicine, Preventive -- Africa -- History -- 20th century | Medical ethics -- Africa -- History -- 20th century | Pentamidine -- adverse effects | Trypanosomiasis, African -- drug therapy | Colonialism -- history | Ethics, Medical -- history | History, 20th Century | France -- Colonies -- Africa -- History -- 20th century | Africa | FranceGenre/Form: Print books.
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.
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Translated from the French.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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