‘Bid the Sickness Cease’: Disease in the History of Black Africa.
By Oliver Ransford. John Murray: 1983. Pp.235. £12.50.
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Formerly at the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine and later Director of Science at the Zoological Society of London. Now retired, he is a part-time consultant to the World Health Organization.
- Len Goodwin
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Goodwin, L. Africa: war against health. Nature 303, 736 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1038/303736a0
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