Guillaume Lachenal is an associate professor in the history of science at the University Paris Diderot. He is the author of Le medecin qui voulut etre roi: Sur les traces d'une utopie coloniale. Noemi R. Tousignant is an affiliate member of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University and a guest researcher in history at the Universite de Montreal. She is the coeditor of Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty-First Century Africa.

This is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.—Choice

• Introduction 1. The Wonder Drug2. Experiments without Borders3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine4. The Spectacle of Eradication5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 19548. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine10. The Swan Song of Eradication11. How the Drug Became Useless and DangerousEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsNotesIndex

Guillaume Lachenal is an associate professor in the history of science at the University Paris Diderot. He is the author of Le medecin qui voulut etre roi: Sur les traces d'une utopie coloniale. Noemi R. Tousignant is an affiliate member of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University and a guest researcher in history at the Universite de Montreal. She is the coeditor of Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty-First Century Africa.

This is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.—Choice

• Introduction 1. The Wonder Drug2. Experiments without Borders3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine4. The Spectacle of Eradication5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 19548. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine10. The Swan Song of Eradication11. How the Drug Became Useless and DangerousEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsNotesIndex

Guillaume Lachenal is an associate professor in the history of science at the University Paris Diderot. He is the author of Le medecin qui voulut etre roi: Sur les traces d'une utopie coloniale. Noemi R. Tousignant is an affiliate member of the Department of Social Studies of Medicine at McGill University and a guest researcher in history at the Universite de Montreal. She is the coeditor of Traces of the Future: An Archaeology of Medical Science in Twenty-First Century Africa.

This is a serious work that deserves serious contemplation; it will be of interest to historians from a variety of fields.—Choice

• Introduction 1. The Wonder Drug2. Experiments without Borders3. The New Deal of Colonial Medicine4. The Spectacle of Eradication5. Lomidine, the Individual, and Race6. Good Citizens and Bad Brothers7. Yokadouma, Cameroon, November–December 19548. “We Cried without Making a Palaver”9. The Misfires of the Imperial Machine10. The Swan Song of Eradication11. How the Drug Became Useless and DangerousEpilogueAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations and AcronymsNotesIndex