Tiogo : Traces et mémoires d’un médecin des épidémies au Burkina Faso
In this text, I look back on a moment of family walk in the countryside. I defended my PhD dissertation on meningitis epidemics in Niger. In addition to an ethnography of epidemics, I did archival research in Niamey, Bobo-Dioulasso, Marseille, Geneva and Manchester. The spatial representation of a m...
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Association Anthropologie Médicale Appliquée au Développement et à la Santé
2020-11-01
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| Series: | Anthropologie & Santé |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/anthropologiesante/8552 |
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| Summary: | In this text, I look back on a moment of family walk in the countryside. I defended my PhD dissertation on meningitis epidemics in Niger. In addition to an ethnography of epidemics, I did archival research in Niamey, Bobo-Dioulasso, Marseille, Geneva and Manchester. The spatial representation of a meningitis belt stretching from Senegal to Ethiopia, described by Dr Léon Lapeyssonnie, tropical disease expert, military doctor, Pasteurian, epidemiologist, diplomat, syringe designer and novelist, had intrigued me. I sometimes went back on his paths and omissions, in particular his rivalry with British doctors in the construction of epidemiological knowledge. I am sharing here a bit of a journey undertaken with my family, four years after my Ph.D. thesis, one Christmas Eve on the ochre roads of Burkina Faso. This photo essay is a contribution to the study of ruins, traces and infrastructures of health from the colonial period. It is part of a book project on epidemics and their vaccines in Africa. |
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| ISSN: | 2111-5028 |