1952 SMITHBURN, K. C.
Neutralizing antibodies against certain recently isolated viruses in the sera of human beings residing in East Africa.
First report of human illness caused by Zika virus, detected in Uganda and Tanzania. 38 patients had neutralizing antibodies to Zika virus in their blood serum, proving that they had been infected by the virus. (Thank…
GMN 10940 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13136
1959 LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972)
A new fossil from Olduvai.
In 1959 Mary Leakey discovered the "Zinj" skull (OH 5) at Olduvai Gorge. This became the type specimen for Paranthropus boisei, arguably the most famous early human fossil from Olduvai in Northern Tanzania. The specie…
GMN 7288 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9458
1961 LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972); ET AL
Age of Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanganyika.
Introduction of the potassium-argon dating method to paleoanthropology, showing that lava at the base of the site of Olduvai Gorge was about 1.8 million years old, and proving that fossils, Australopithecus (Zinjanthr…
GMN 214.2 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/8937
1964 LEAKEY, Louis Seymour Bazett (1903 – 1972); TOBIAS, Phillip Valentine (1925 – 2012); NAPIER, John Russell (1917 – 1987)
A new species of the genus Homo from Olduvai Gorge.
First report on Homo habilis.
GMN 7270 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9440
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
1980 HARJULA, R
Mirau and his practice: A study of the ethnomedicinal repertoire of a Tanzanian herbalist.
GMN 8503 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10680
2000 SETEL, Philip W.
A Plague of paradoxes: Aids, culture, and demography in Northern Tanzania.
GMN 10033 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12222
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
