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Project

Transnationalism in the production of medical knowledge in and concerning the Congo during the colonial period
Code
3F006307
Duration
01 October 2007 → 30 September 2011
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • African history
    • European history
    • Modern and contemporary history
    • World history
    • History not elsewhere classified
Keywords
20th century transnational scientific exchange medical history colonialism
 
Project description
 

Focusing on sleeping sickness research regarding the Congo (1899-1960), this project investigates the importance of cross-border scientific exchanges and interactions, including those between the Belgian metropole and her colony as well as those between the Belgium/Congo axis and other metropoles, colonies, and intergovernmental institutions, in the production of tropical medical knowledge.