Paul Ehrlich's colonial connections: Scientific networks and sleeping sickness drug therapy research, 1900-1914

Social History of Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 61-77

  Neill, Deborah ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Africa; Human trypanosomiasis; Paul Ehrlich; Sleeping sickness; Transnational networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 64749090095     PISSN: 0951631X     EISSN: 14774666     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/shm/hkn094     Document Type: Article

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