• Bull Hist Med · Jan 2018

    Historical Article

    A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria: The Rockefeller Foundation Yellow Fever Research Institute at Yaba, Lagos, 1943-49.

    • Megan Vaughan.
    • Bull Hist Med. 2018 Jan 1; 92 (1): 172-205.

    AbstractThis article examines the history of yellow fever research carried out in West Africa in the 1940s by Rockefeller Foundation scientists. It engages with a number of debates in the history of medical research in colonial Africa, including experimentation, the construction of the "field," and biosecurity.

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