{"product_id":"the-lomidine-files-9781421423234","title":"The Lomidine Files","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUltimately, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGuillaume Lachenal's engaging body of work has long been on the radar of global scholars of public health and medicine in Africa. It is, then, both a true pleasure for readers and vital addition to Anglophone literature in the field that we now have his monograph, \u003ci\u003eThe Lomidine Files\u003c\/i\u003e, in Noémi Tousignant's elegant translation from the original French . . . This is an innovative and sophisticated study that rewards sustained engagement. Though it will appeal to a wide audience interested in medical controversy or public health ethics, it is also an excellent addition to undergraduate and graduate syllabi in public health, the histories of science and medicine, world history, African studies, and development studies.\u003cbr\u003e—Mari K. Webel, University of Pittsburgh, \u003ci\u003eBulletin of the History of Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI urge medical scientists, health activists, public health experts, executives of multinational pharmaceutical companies, public officials of affected countries, and officials of international organizations, bilateral development agencies and philanthropic organizations—not to mention the sociologists, anthropologists, historians and others who study them—to read this book. And read it carefully. It cannot tell us how to avoid the catastrophic outcomes of bêtise, but it should have a humbling effect, as it offers a painful remainder of the costs to others—not of evil, but of simple passivity, stupidity and arrogance.\u003cbr\u003e—Nitsan Chorev, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e1. The Wonder Drug\u003cbr\u003e2. Experiments without Borders\u003cbr\u003e3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine\u003cbr\u003e4. The Spectacle of Eradication\u003cbr\u003e5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race\u003cbr\u003e6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers\u003cbr\u003e7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 1954\u003cbr\u003e8. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”\u003cbr\u003e9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine\u003cbr\u003e10. The Swan Song of Eradication\u003cbr\u003e11. How the Drug Became Useless and Dangerous\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eList of Abbreviations and Acronyms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408122814807,"sku":"9781421423234","price":28.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781421423234.jpg?v=1730501667","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-lomidine-files-9781421423234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}