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From Africanizing oncology to decolonizing global health: reflections on the biomedical turn in African health histories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2022

Marissa Mika
Marissa Mika*
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Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, University of California, Berkeley, USA
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Africa , Volume 92 , Issue 3 , May 2022 , pp. 397 - 399
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