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100 1  Lachenal, Guillaume,|d1978-|eauthor. 
245 14 The Lomidine Files :|bThe Untold Story of a Medical 
       Disaster in Colonial Africa /|cGuillaume Lachenal ; 
       translated by Noemi Tousignant. 
264  1 [Place of publication not identified] :|bJohns Hopkins 
       University Press,|c[2017] 
264  4 |c©2017 
300    1 online resource (240 pages) 
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520    "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"--|cProvided by Freading. 
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650  0 African trypanosomiasis|zAfrica|xPrevention|xHistory|y20th
       century. 
650  0 African trypanosomiasis|xChemotherapy|xComplications
       |zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Pentamidine|xSide effects|zAfrica. 
650  0 Medicine, Preventive|zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Medical ethics|zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues.|2bisacsh 
651  0 France|xColonies|zAfrica|xHistory|y20th century. 
655  0 Electronic books. 
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