The colonial disease : a social history of sleeping sickness in northern Zaire, 1900-1940 / Maryinez Lyons.

The Belgians commonly referred to their colonisation of the Congo as a 'civilising mission', and many regarded the introduction of western bio-medicine as a central feature of their 'gift' to Africans. By 1930, however, it was clear that some features of their 'civilising mi...

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Main Author: Lyons, Maryinez (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Series:Cambridge history of medicine.
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