Article ID: CBB494670541

A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria: The Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943–49 (2018)

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This article examines the history of yellow fever research carried out in West Africa in the 1940s by Rockefeller Foundation scientists. It engages with a number of debates in the history of medical research in colonial Africa, including experimentation, the construction of the “field,” and biosecurity.

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Authors & Contributors
Ali Erken
Romeo, Giovanni
Romeo, Francesco
Ash, Fred
Seaton, Andrew
Westmore, Ann
Journals
Medicina nei Secoli - Arte e Scienza
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Bulletin of the History of Medicine
Railroad History
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Journal of the History of Biology
Publishers
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Bowling Green State University
University of California Press
MIT Press
Indiana University Press
Boydell Press
Concepts
Medicine
Yellow fever
Public health
Privately sponsored science; philanthropy
Disease and diseases
Medicine and politics
People
Levi, Giuseppe
Doğramacı, İhsan
Raşit Hatipoğlu, Şevket
Soper, Fred Lowe
Klotz, Oskar
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
21st century
Places
Colombia
United States
Latin America
Italy
Great Britain
Lagos, Nigeria
Institutions
Rockefeller Foundation
Hacettepe Üniversitesi
Illinois Central Railroad
Ankara Yüksek Ziraat Enstitüsü
Peking Union Medical College
Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, Md.)
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