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Moon Madness : Dr. Louise Aall, sixty years of healing in Africa

2019

It is a biography of Dr. Louise All who worked in Africa (Tanzania) as a doctor treating epilepsy 'in the bush' for some 60 years. She made several important discoveries about epilepsy (moon madness) at various of her clinics near Mahenge. She also worked for a time as a Red Cross doctor at the hospital in the city of Matadi in the Belgian Congo during the time of the violent civil war when she had to be protected at all times by UN troops. It was the time when Lamumba was under house arrest and shortly after assassinated. At this time all the whites had largely fled from the violence. From Matadi, she went to Dr. Albert Schweitzer's hospital in Lambaréné (Gabon) as an expert in tropical medicine, where Schweitzer treated her almost as a daughter. After this time, she and her new husband immigrated to Canada, and did further training at McGill and at UBC. She and her husband set up an Indigenous psychiatric practice for a time in the Fraser Valley. Together and apart they have attended many medical conferences and have published many medical papers in prestigious medical journals. Louise was born in Oslo, Norway, on April 21, 1931. She now lives in the outskirts of Vancouver and is very ill.--$cProvided by publisher.
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Authors

Alan Twigg

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Date published
2020.
Description conventions
rda
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
610.92
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
Distributor
Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
General Note
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
Geographic Area Code
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ISBN
9781553805953 1553805933
LCCN
R654.J54
LCCN Item number
T85 2019eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
NLC
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (227 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates)
Published in
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)kck00241050 (OCoLC)1178763243 (CaOOCEL)480332
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
NLC

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