1921 MONTGOMERY, R. Eustace
On a form of swine fever occurring in British East Africa (Kenya Colony).
First description of African Swine Fever. Montgomery was "Veterinary Adviser to the Government of Uganda, formerly Veterinary Pathologist to the East Africa Protectorate."
GMN 11762 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13963
1970 BECK, Ann Frank (1900 – 2002)
A history of the British medical administration of East Africa, 1900-1950.
Concerns modernization and development of scientific health services in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika (now Tanzania) during the first half of the twentieth century.
GMN 8496 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10673
1976 CARMAN, John Ambrose
A medical history of Kenya.
GMN 8311 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10487
1985 BROWN, Frank Harold (1943 – 2017); HARRIS, John W. K.; LEAKEY, Richard Erskine Frere (1944 – )
Early Homo erectus skeleton from west Lake Turkana, Kenya.
The Turkana Boy, (KNM-WT 15000) now called Nariokotome Boy, a Homo erectus fossil which was in 2016 the most complete early human skeleton found. It is a nearly complete skeleton of a hominin youth believed to be 1.5 …
GMN 7284 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9454
1986 ALEKSEYEV, Valery Pavlovich (ALEXEEV) (1929 – 1991)
The origin of the human race.
First publication in English by Alekseyev of Homo rudolfensis, primarily known from KNM-ER 1470, discovered in Koobi Fora in the Lake Turkana basin, Kenya. Alekseyev (Alexeev) first proposed the species in 1978, initi…
GMN 7283 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9453
1987 GOOD, Charles M.
Ethnomedical systems in Africa: Patterns of traditional medicine in rural and urban Kenya.
GMN 8502 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10679
1995 LEAKEY, Meave G. (1942 – ); FEIBEL, Craig S.
New four-million-year-old hominid species from Kanapoi and Allia Bay, Kenya.
In 1965, a research team led by Bryan Patterson from Harvard University discovered a single arm bone (KNM-KP 271) of an early human at Kanapoi in northern Kenya, but without additional fossils Patterson could not conf…
GMN 7278 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9448
2001 SENUT, Brigitte (1954 – ); PICKFORD, Martin (1943 – )
'Millennium Ancestor', a 6-million-year-old bipedal hominid from Kenya - Recent discoveries push back human origins by 1.5 million years.
Living around 6 million years ago, in the Tugen hills region of central Kenya, this species, named Orrorin tugenensis, had small teeth with thick enamel similar to modern humans. It climbed trees, but also probably wa…
GMN 7275 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9445
2001 LEAKEY, Meave G. (1942 – )
New hominin genus from eastern Africa shows diverse middle Pliocene lineages.
In 1998 and 1999, working in the Lake Turkana region of northern Kenya, Meave Leakey and her team found a cranium and other fossil remains of a 3.5 million year old hominin with a mixture of features unseen in other e…
GMN 7279 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9449
2007 CROZIER, Anna
Practising colonial medicine: The Colonial Medical Service in British East Africa.
The Colonial Medical Service was the branch of the Colonial Serice responsible for healthcare provision in the British overseas territories. This book profiles Colonial Medical Officers (MOs) serving in Kenya, Uganda …
GMN 8413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10590
2015 GREENWOOD, Anna
Beyond the state: The colonial medical service in British Africa.
GMN 12408 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14638
2017 HOKKANEN, Markku
Medicine, mobility and the empire: Nyasaland networks, 1859-1960.
"David Livingstone's Zambesi expedition marked the beginning of an ongoing series of medical exchanges between the British and Malawians. This book explores these entangled histories by placing medicine in the framewo…
GMN 12409 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14639
