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Project
Transnationalism in the production of medical knowledge in and concerning the Congo during the colonial period
Focusing on sleeping sickness research regarding the Congo (1899-1960), this project investigates the importance of cross-border scientific exchanges and interactions, including those between the Belgian metropole and her colony as well as those between the Belgium/Congo axis and other metropoles, colonies, and intergovernmental institutions, in the production of tropical medical knowledge.
Date:1 Oct 2007 → 30 Sep 2011
Keywords:20th century, transnational scientific exchange, medical history, colonialism
Disciplines:World history, African history, History not elsewhere classified, European history, Modern and contemporary history