The wonder drug -- Experimentations without borders -- The new deal of colonial medicine -- The spectacle of eradication -- Race, pentamidine and the individual -- Good citizens and bad brothers -- Yokadouma, Cameroon, November-December 1954 -- "We cried without making a palaver" -- The misfirings of the imperial machine -- The swan song of eradication -- How the drug became useless and dangerous -- Epilogue
Summary
Ultimately, it illuminates public health not only as a showcase of colonial humanism and a tool of control but as an arena of mediocrity, powerlessness, and stupidity