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The Lomidine Files

Author : Guillaume Lachenal
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423243
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Lomidine Files written by Guillaume Lachenal and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This prize-winning study examines the nightmarish effects of the so-called “wonder drug” in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa. After the Second World War, French colonial health services set out to eradicate sleeping sickness in Africa. The newly discovered drug Lomidine (also known as Pentamidine) promised to protect against infection, and mass campaigns of “preventive lomidinization” were launched across Africa. But the drug proved to be both inefficient and dangerous. In numerous cases, it led to fatality. In The Lomidine Files, Guillaume Lachenal traces the medicine’s trajectory from experimental trials during the Second World War to its abandonment in the late 1950s. He explores colonial doctors’ dangerous obsession with an Africa freed from disease and describes the terrible reactions caused by the drug, the resulting panic of colonial authorities, and the decades-long cover-up that followed. A fascinating material history that touches on the drug’s manufacture and distribution, as well as the tragedies that followed in its path, The Lomidine Files resurrects a nearly forgotten scandal. Ultimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control but also as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity. Winner of the George Rosen Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine

The Lomidine Files

Author : Guillaume Lachenal
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421423235
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Lomidine Files written by Guillaume Lachenal and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-10-02 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Doctor Who Would Be King

Author : Guillaume Lachenal
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 1478022485
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Doctor Who Would Be King written by Guillaume Lachenal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Doctor Who Would Be King Guillaume Lachenal tells the extraordinary story of Dr. Jean Joseph David, a French colonial army doctor who governed an entire region of French Cameroon during World War II. Dr. David—whom locals called “emperor”—dreamed of establishing a medical utopia. Through unchecked power, he imagined realizing the colonialist fantasy of emancipating colonized subjects from misery, ignorance, and sickness. Drawing on archives, oral histories, and ethnographic fieldwork, Lachenal traces Dr. David’s earlier attempts at a similar project on a Polynesian island and the ongoing legacies of his failed experiment in Cameroon. Lachenal does not merely recount a Conradian tale of imperial hubris, he brings the past into the present, exploring the memories and remains of Dr. David’s rule to reveal a global history of violence, desire, and failure in which hope for the future gets lost in the tragic comedy of power.

The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies

Author : Martin Thomas
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192636634
Total Pages : 867 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies written by Martin Thomas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 867 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lethality of conflicts between insurgent groups and counter-insurgent security forces has risen markedly since the Second World War just as those of conventional, or inter-state wars have declined. For several decades, conflicts within states rather than between them have been the prevalent form of organised political violence worldwide. Recent conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria have fired interest in colonial experiences of rebellion, while current western interventions in sub-Saharan Africa have prompted accusations of 'militarist humanitarianism'. Yet, despite mounting interest in counter-insurgency and empire, comparative investigation of colonial responses to insurrection and civil disorder is sparse. Some scholars have written of a 'golden age of counter-insurgency', which began with Britain's declaration of a Malayan Emergency in 1948 and ended with the withdrawal of US ground troops from Vietnam in 1973. It is with this period, if not with any presumed 'golden age' that this volume is concerned. This Handbook connects ideas about contested decolonization and the insurgencies that inspired it with an analysis of patterns and singularities in the conflicts that precipitated the collapse of overseas empires. It attempts a systematic study of the global effects of organized anti-colonial violence in Asia and Africa. The objective is to reconceptualize late colonial violence in the European overseas empires by exploring its distinctive character and the globalizing processes underpinning it.

Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire

Author : Margaret Cook Andersen
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031260244
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Fertility, Family, and Social Welfare between France and Empire written by Margaret Cook Andersen and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940

Author : Francis Dube
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030475352
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940 by : Francis Dube

Download or read book Public Health at the Border of Zimbabwe and Mozambique, 1890–1940 written by Francis Dube and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first major work to explore the utility of the border as a theoretical, methodological, and interpretive construct for understanding colonial public health by considering African experiences in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique borderland. It examines the impact of colonial public health measures such as medical examinations/inspections, vaccinations, and border surveillance on African villagers in this borderland. The book asks whether the conjunction of a particular colonized society, a distinctive kind of colonialism, and a particular territorial border generated reluctance to embrace public health because of certain colonial circumstances which impeded the acceptance of therapeutic alternatives that were embraced by colonized people elsewhere. It asks historians to look elsewhere for similar kinds of histories involving racialized application of public health policies in colonial borderlands.

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals

Author : Laurence Monnais
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474667
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals written by Laurence Monnais and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines.

The Politics of Disease Control

Author : Mari K. Webel
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821446916
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Disease Control written by Mari K. Webel and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-12 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of epidemic illness and political change, The Politics of Disease Control focuses on epidemics of sleeping sickness (human African trypanosomiasis) around Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika in the early twentieth century as well as the colonial public health programs designed to control them. Mari K. Webel prioritizes local histories of populations in the Great Lakes region to put the successes and failures of a widely used colonial public health intervention—the sleeping sickness camp—into dialogue with African strategies to mitigate illness and death in the past. Webel draws case studies from colonial Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda to frame her arguments within a zone of vigorous mobility and exchange in eastern Africa, where African states engaged with the Belgian, British, and German empires. Situating sleeping sickness control within African intellectual worlds and political dynamics, The Politics of Disease Control connects responses to sleeping sickness with experiences of historical epidemics such as plague, cholera, and smallpox, demonstrating important continuities before and after colonial incursion. African strategies to mitigate disease, Webel shows, fundamentally shaped colonial disease prevention programs in a crucial moment of political and social change.

Medical histories of Belgium

Author : Joris Vandendriessche
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526156547
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Medical histories of Belgium written by Joris Vandendriessche and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical histories of Belgium reshapes Belgian history of medicine by bringing together a new generation of scholars. Going beyond a chronological narrative, the book offers new insights by questioning classic themes of the history of medicine: physicians, institutions and the nation state. While retracing specific Belgian characteristics, it also engages with broader European developments in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Medical histories of Belgium will appeal to Historians of Belgium in various subfields, especially cultural history and political history and medical historians and medical practitioners seeking the historical context of their activities.

Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa

Author : Kalle Kananoja
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491251
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Healing Knowledge in Atlantic Africa written by Kalle Kananoja and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kananoja demonstrates how medical interaction in early modern Atlantic Africa was characterised by continuous knowledge exchange between Africans and Europeans.

The United Nations Trusteeship System

Author : Jan Lüdert
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000781623
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations Trusteeship System written by Jan Lüdert and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers the past and present legacies, continuities and change of the United Nations Trusteeship System by assessing consequences and legacies of decolonization in contemporary society, international organizations and international politics. International contributors address the UN Trusteeship System as a venue for multiple state and non- state actors and its effect on the international system. Rather than viewing UN trusteeship as a bygone phenomenon, the volume underscores its current relevance, particularly in view of the recent resurgence of trusteeship models such as in Kosovo and East Timor. Offering a novel and robust, yet simple and intuitive analytical framework through which to understand a broad range of cases related to the Trusteeship System and its impact on the international system, the book places emphasis on the agency of states in the Global South and highlights the importance of multiple actors in global governance. It will be of interest to scholars of international relations theory and history in a variety of fields, ranging from African Politics to Intergovernmental Organizations and Comparative Politics.

Next-Generation of Empirical Research in Economics

Author : Keijiro Otsuka
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819718872
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Next-Generation of Empirical Research in Economics written by Keijiro Otsuka and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya

Author : Denielle Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351672363
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Science and Statecraft in Postcolonial Kenya written by Denielle Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the development of medical sciences in postcolonial Kenya, through the adventures and stories of the controversial Kalenjin scientist Davy Kiprotich Koech. As a collaborative life story project, it privileges African voices and retellings, re-centring the voice of African scientists from the peripheries of storytelling about science, global health research collaborations, national politics, international geopolitical alliances, and medical research. Focusing largely on the development of the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) and its collaborations with the US Centers for Disease Control, the Walter Reed Project, Japan’s International Cooperation Agency, the Wellcome Trust, and other international partners, Denielle Elliott and Davy Koech challenge euro-dominant representations of African science and global health in both the contemporary and historical and offer an unconventional account which aims to destabilize colonial and neo-colonial narratives about African science, scientists, and statecraft. The stories force readers to contend with a series of questions including: How do imperial effects shape contemporary medical research and national sovereignty? In which ways do the colonial ghosts of early medical research infuse the struggles of postcolonial scientists to build national scientific projects? How were postcolonial nation-building projects tied up with the dreams and visions of African scientists? And lastly, how might we reimagine African medicine and biosciences? The monograph will be of interest to students, educators, and scholars working in African Studies, Science and Technology Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Global Health, Cultural Anthropology, and Medical Anthropology.

Transforming Social Determinants to Promote Global Health

Author : Jill B. Hamilton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031611608
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (316 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Social Determinants to Promote Global Health written by Jill B. Hamilton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations—Vol. II

Author : Alexey M. Vasiliev
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031340418
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations—Vol. II by : Alexey M. Vasiliev

Download or read book Africa and the Formation of the New System of International Relations—Vol. II written by Alexey M. Vasiliev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the growing number of African summits and a new awareness of international interdependence during the COVID-19 pandemic, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of Africa’s international relations (IR). Leading IR scholars from Africa and around the world examine international cooperation with African countries in areas such as health care, education, and peacekeeping and explore how Africa’s role in the system of international relations has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book is divided into four parts, the first of which explores analyzes the various actors that constitute African agency in the post-pandemic world, while the second focuses on the summits of the major powers regarding cooperation with Africa. The third part covers public health cooperation and regional initiatives in Africa, including issues such as vaccine diplomacy, while the fourth and final part discusses conflicts & political process despite COVID Pandemics.

Health in a Fragile State

Author : John M. Janzen
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299325008
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Health in a Fragile State written by John M. Janzen and published by University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2019-12-03 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s. This work brings into focus John M. Janzen's earlier books on African health and healing, revealing the collaborative effort by local, national, and international agencies to create viable alternative institutions to those that represented the centralized state. This book documents and analyzes the realignment of existing institutions and the creation of new ones that shape health and healing. Janzen explores the manner in which power and information, including science, are legitimized in the preservation and improvement of health. Institutional validity and knowledge empower citizens and health practitioners to gain the upper hand over the region's principal diseases, including malaria, tuberculosis, typhoid, and HIV/AIDS.

Babies Made Us Modern

Author : Janet Golden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108244424
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Babies Made Us Modern written by Janet Golden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing babies' lives at the center of her narrative, historian Janet Golden analyzes the dramatic transformations in the lives of American babies during the twentieth century. She examines how babies shaped American society and culture and led their families into the modern world to become more accepting of scientific medicine, active consumers, open to new theories of human psychological development, and welcoming of government advice and programs. Importantly Golden also connects the reduction in infant mortality to the increasing privatization of American lives. She also examines the influence of cultural traditions and religious practices upon the diversity of infant lives, exploring the ways class, race, region, gender, and community shaped life in the nursery and household.