Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965 Ideas and Improvisations

Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, maternity care, psychiatry, and the treatment of dysentery and leprosy reveals...

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Main Author: Zumthurm, Tizian (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Brill 2020
Series:Clio Medica
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