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Record W3143744187 · doi:10.1017/9781108767019.010

The Legacies of French Colonial Medicine

2021· book-chapter· en· W3143744187 on OpenAlex
Jacques Pépin

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Bibliographic record

VenueCambridge University Press eBooks · 2021
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistory of Medicine and Tropical Health
Canadian institutionsUniversité de Sherbrooke
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSyphilisColonialismLeprosyTransmission (telecommunications)MedicinePsychological interventionHuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV)Family medicineVirologyHistoryGeographyImmunologyPsychiatryArchaeology

Abstract

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Chapter 9 looks at the history of colonial medicine in French Africa. Eugène Jamot, the most famous French military doctor, spearheaded efforts in the 1920s to control sleeping sickness. These interventions were later extended to other endemic diseases such as yaws, syphilis and leprosy. Case-finding activities in every village, with on-the-spot treatment of infected patients with injectable drugs administered using unsterilised syringes and needles, led to massive infection with the hepatitis C virus of as many as half of some birth cohorts. Obviously, this could have resulted in the concurrent iatrogenic transmission of HIV, in the very parts of central Africa inhabited by the chimpanzee source of the virus.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.760
Threshold uncertainty score0.788

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.172 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it