Evidence, ethos and experiment : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa / edited by P. Wenzel Geissler and C. Molyneux.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geissler, Wenzel

Contributor:

Geissler, Wenzel.

Molyneux, Catherine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Research--Moral and ethical aspects--Africa--Congresses.

Medicine.

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects--Africa--Congresses.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Medical ethics--Congresses.

Medical ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Medical research has been central to biomedicine in Africa for over a century, and Africa, along with other tropical areas, has been crucial to the development of medical science. At present, study populations in Africa participate in an increasing number of medical research projects and clinical trials, run by both public institutions and private companies. Global debates about the politics and ethics of this research are growing and local concerns are prompting calls for social studies of the "trial communities" produced by this scientific work. Drawing on rich, ethnographic and historiogra

Contents:

Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa / P. Wenzel Geissler

Writing knowledge and acknowledgement: possibilities in medical research / Susan Reynolds Whyte

Can one rely on knowledge? / Marilyn Strathern

Being 'with MRC': infant care and the social meanings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead

Contextualising ethics in AIDS research: or, the morality of knowledge production in ethnographic fieldwork on 'the unspeakable' / Hansjörg Dilger

Testing a new drug for leprosy: clofazimine and its precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966 / John Manton

Elucidating ethics in practice: focus on accountability / George Ulrich

When physicians meet: local medical knowledge and global public goods / Steven Feierman

The plausibility design, quasi-experiments, and real world research: a case study from the interdisciplinary monitoring project for antimalarial combination treatment in Tanzania / S. Patrick Kachur

Remember Bambali: evidence, ethics and the co-production of truth / Ann Kelly

Foetuses, facts and frictions: insights from ultrasound research in Tanzania / Babette Müller-Rockstroh

Healers and scientists: the epistemological politics of research about medicinal plants in Tanzania, or 'moving away from traditional medicine' / Stacey A. Langwick

Parasite lost: remembering modern times with Kenyan government medical scientists / P. Wenzel Geissler

Is the sharia of the doctors killing the people? a local debate on ethics and the control of HIV/AIDS in a rural area in Kenya / Suzette Heald

The historical interface between the state and medical science in Africa: Kenya's case / Kenneth S. Ombongi

The intimate rules of the French coopération : morality, race and the postcolonial division of scientific work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal

'The mosquito taken at the beer-hall': malaria research and control on Zambia's copperbelt / Lyn Schumaker

Trial communities: HIV and therapeutic citizenship in West Africa / Vin-Kim Nguyen

Differences in medicine, differences in ethics: or, When is it research and when is it kidnapping, or is that even the right question? / Luise White.

Notes:

Papers from a conference held in Kilifi, Kenya in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY

ISBN:

9786613326515

9781283326513

1283326515

9780857450920

0857450921

OCLC:

769188693