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Title:Special issue: Incorporating medical research into the history of medicine in East Africa
Editor:Graboyes, MelissaISNI
Year:2014
Periodical:International Journal of African Historical Studies (ISSN 0361-7882)
Volume:47
Issue:3
Pages:379-505
Language:English
City of publisher:Boston, MA
Publisher:Boston University
Geographic term:East Africa
Subjects:medical research
malaria
trypanosomiasis
kwashiorkor
Abstract:There is a deep history of medical research in East Africa, which is intertwined with the larger and longer history of medical interventions in the region. This special issue on the history of medical research in East Africa presents four new research articles. Mari Webel's article deals with the Kigarama sleeping sickness camp in western Tanganyika, which became a new site of treatment, research and commerce between1907 and1914. Patrick Malloy's article on biomedicine in colonial Tanganyika argues that traces of a broad popular discourse deeply suspicious of biomedicine, and specifically its expression as medical research, can be found in a number of African printed sources in both English and Swahili. Melissa Graboyes's piece highlights a singular malaria elimination experiment in Kenya and Tanzania in the late 1950s, where residents were not made aware that the attempt was an experiment, or that there would be widespread risks if the attempt failed. Jennifer Tappan's article deals with nutritional research conducted in Uganda since 1935, focusing on kwashiorkor research conducted on children in the 1940s. Kwashiorkor was defined as a form of malnutrition and was attributed to a diet deficient in protein. The article shows how medical discontent can bleed into the political realm. An introductory article by Melissa Graboyes discusses the scope and characteristics of medical research in East Africa, and presents a chronology of medical research in the region. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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