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A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria: The Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943–49
- Bulletin of the History of Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 92, Number 1, Spring 2018
- pp. 172-205
- 10.1353/bhm.2018.0007
- Article
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Abstract
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This article examines the history of yellow fever research carried out in West Africa in the 1940s by Rockefeller Foundation scientists. It engages with a number of debates in the history of medical research in colonial Africa, including experimentation, the construction of the “field,” and biosecurity.
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