ABSTRACT As sleeping sickness appeared in epidemics across Africa c. 1900, it stimulated a race among colonial medical personnel and Europe-based scientists to discover its causative pathogen, its mode of transmission, and, ideally, a cure. Scientists circulated between hubs of research in Europe and key field sites in Africa, monitoring each other’s progress and often maintaining long-term relationships colored by collaboration and competition. The Lake Victoria littoral was an epicenter of both significant mortality and important research before WWI. This article explores the intellectual implications of colonial connectivity at local scale, focusing on changing ideas about sleeping sickness, the communication of research strategies and methods, and the circumstances of life and research in this imperial hinterland and colonial borderland in eastern Africa. Exploring research dynamics around Lake Victoria illuminates the inadequacies of colonial scientific and medical capabilities and both the generative and limiting aspects that the contingencies of colonial research created.

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锥虫病、热带医学和维多利亚湖的跨殖民地研究实践，1902-07

摘要 由于昏睡病出现在整个非洲的流行病中 c．1900 年，它激发了殖民地医务人员和欧洲科学家之间的竞赛，以发现其致病病原体、传播方式以及理想的治疗方法。科学家们在欧洲的研究中心和非洲的关键现场站点之间流动，监测彼此的进展，并经常保持因合作和竞争而建立的长期关系。在第一次世界大战之前，维多利亚湖沿岸是重大死亡率和重要研究的中心。本文探讨了当地规模的殖民连通性的智力影响，重点关注改变关于昏睡病的观念、研究策略和方法的交流、以及东非这片帝国腹地和殖民地边疆的生活和研究情况。探索维多利亚湖周围的研究动态揭示了殖民科学和医疗能力的不足，以及殖民研究的偶然性所造成的产生和限制方面。