The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa

by Guillaume Lachenal

Tracing the nightmarish effects of the "wonder drug" Lomidine in preventing sleeping sickness in Africa.

Winner of the George Rosen Prize by the American Association for the History of Medicine

After the Second World War, French colonial health services, armed with a newly discovered drug, made the eradication of sleeping sickness their top priority. A single injection of Lomidine (known as Pentamidine in the United States) promised...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421423235
• ISBN13: 9781421423234
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher