wyszukanych pozycji: 4
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The Doctor Who Would Be King
ISBN: 9781478015246 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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498,30 zł |
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The Doctor Who Would Be King
ISBN: 9781478017868 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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123,72 zł |
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The Lomidine Files: The Untold Story of a Medical Disaster in Colonial Africa
ISBN: 9781421423234 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. 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 to protect against infection for six months or longer. Mass campaigns of "preventive lomidinization" were launched with immense enthusiasm across Africa. But the drug proved to be both inefficient and dangerous. Contaminated injections caused bacterial infections that progressed to gangrene, killing dozens of people. Shockingly, the French physicians... After the Second World War, French colonial health services, armed with a newly discovered drug, made the eradication of sleeping sickness their to... |
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164,93 zł |
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Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Africa
ISBN: 9781783207251 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and Tanzania. The authors aim to understand the afterlife of scientific institutions and practices and the aftertime of scientific modernity and its attendant visions of progress and transformation. Straightforward scholarly work is juxtaposed here with altogether more experimental approaches to fieldwork and analysis, including interview fragments; brief, reflective essays; and a rich photographic archive. The result is an unprecedented view of the...
This book presents a close look at the vestiges of twentieth-century medical work at five key sites in Africa: Senegal, Nigeria, Cameroon, Kenya, and ...
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129,51 zł |