Another Magic Mountain

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Viimeisin historian havainto

29.10.2026

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Kibong’oto Hospital, opened in 1926, is an East African tuberculosis treatment center located on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro. Its history is crucial to understanding tuberculosis in Tanzania and, more broadly, in Africa. With the hospital as a point of departure, Christoph Gradmann presents a history of this disease that engages with local and regional contexts rather than with international elite science and health policies. The book addresses key questions about the African experience with tuberculosis: -What did it mean to do clinical science on tuberculosis in colonial and postcolonial contexts? -Along which trajectories did medical practice and research evolve in a place where international advances in medical science were sometimes heard of only faintly and where resources could be scarce? -How did a large hospital with several hundred beds dedicated to the treatment of just one condition figure in the development of national and regional health systems? -How did Kibong’oto

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ohio university press

EAN / GTIN

9780821426333