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(Cambridge History of Medicine.) by Maryinez Lyons. 335 pp., illustrated. New York, Cambridge University Press, 1992. $79.95. ISBN 0-521-40350-2.

Historians of medicine in Africa often claim that biotechnology and improved public health make up the most important legacy of colonialism. Maryinez Lyons' Colonial Disease describes the draconian measures taken by the Belgians in an attempt to check the spread of a devastating epidemic of trypanosomiasis that killed hundreds of thousands of indigenous people in northern Zaire (then known as the Belgian Congo).

This book is an interesting and persuasive description of how colonialism's "gift" of Western medicine was often used as a tool of suppression, wreaking havoc with the social and economic structure of African societies. The author attempts . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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