This paper uses articles from the East African Medical Journal to trace medical authorities’ changing conceptions of East Africa’s tuberculosis problem from the 1920s through the 1970s. In the early decades of this colonial publication, contributors identified racial susceptibility as the source of East Africa’s rising tuberculosis rates. After the British Medical Research Council began collaborating on anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy experiments in the region around mid-century, contributors identified economic scarcity—specifically a lack of medical resources—as the root of East Africa’s tuberculosis problem. In reducing economic scarcity to an experimental variable, researchers construed East Africa and the developing world as naturally ‘resource poor’. At the same time, they used this identity as a backdrop for finding new chemotherapy regimens (six-month short-course chemotherapy) that worked even in low-income settings. Biomedical experiments and technologies, this paper argues, shaped and were shaped by conceptions of East African difference.
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