John Le Carré, The Constant Gardener

LynnDianne Beene (University of New Mexico)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Kerry Myler (Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 2000

Places

England (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel
Spy and Espionage

Resources

Africans have good reason to fear international pharmaceutical companies. In Kano, Nigeria, Big Pharma was connected to one atrocity that lead to the loss of human life, years of law suits, and, it is speculated, to John le Carré’s The Constant Gardner (2001). Summarized in several newspapers (e.g., Stephens, 2000, 2006), Nigeria, suffering meningococcal meningitis epidemic, allowed Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres, MSF) to set up clinics in Kano to treat the sick. MSF treated patients, particularly children, with chloramphenicol, a drug approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) for bacterial meningitis. But the cases overwhelmed MSF’s ability to contain the epidemic.

Then the …

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Citation: Beene, LynnDianne. "The Constant Gardener". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 12 January 2018 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=1185, accessed 24 November 2024.]

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