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Sleeping Sickness

Gelesen von Pamela Nagami

(3,25 Sterne; 2 Bewertungen)

In the twenty-first century sleeping sickness (African trypanosomiasis in humans) is still a life-threatening disease of adults and children and a hazard to tourists in East African game parks.The protozoan parasite is transmitted by the tsetse fly, a buzzing insect with reddish eyes and a large biting proboscis. In 1912, when this short monograph was written, physicians of the British Empire understood that trans-continental expeditions manned by infected African porters, had set off an epidemic of sleeping sickness that had claimed half a million lives. Dr. Sandwith, an eyewitness to the disaster, traces this legacy of imperialism, from the traders who learned to reject slaves with swollen glands, through Stanley's trypanosome-transporting treks in search of Dr. Livingstone and of Emin Pasha, to the clinical description of the tremulous patient, his head aching and his body painfully sensitive to touch, whose sufferings are at last ended by a stupor from which he cannot be roused. (Pamela Nagami, M.D.) (2 hr 29 min)

Chapters

Preface, Cattle Trypanosomiasis, History of Sleeping Sickness

44:12

Read by Pamela Nagami

The Discovery of the Human Trypanosome, The Course of Sleeping Sickness

29:37

Read by Pamela Nagami

Outlook for the Patient, Discovery of the Carrier of Sleeping Sickness

17:46

Read by Pamela Nagami

Trypanosomes and Tsetse Flies

33:54

Read by Pamela Nagami

Measures of Prevention, Present Research Work

24:29

Read by Pamela Nagami

Bewertungen

White man's burden...

(3,5 Sterne)

Medically quite interesting, detailing the search for the cause and transmission of African sleeping sickness during the late 19th-early 20th centuries. Culturally kind, patronizing and cringeworthy. Probably very enlightened for its time, but might cause gnashing of teeth for a modern listener. Hooray for the narrator! She's a doctor, and suits the subject matter perfectly. All medical and entomological terminology crisp and clear!

(3 Sterne)

Very informative and very well presented. I was impressed and I learned alot