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The experiment must continue : medical research and ethics in East Africa, 1940/2014 / Melissa Graboyes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graboyes, Melissa, author.
- Series:
- Perspectives on global health.
- Perspectives on global health
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biology research--History--Africa, Eastern.
- Biology research.
- Anthropology--History--Africa, Eastern.
- Anthropology.
- Medicine--Research--Africa, Eastern.
- Medicine.
- Human experimentation in medicine--History--Africa, Eastern.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Africa, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Africa, Eastern.
- Africa, Eastern--History--21st century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (337 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian.
- Contents:
- The experiment begins : medical research past and present
- East African perceptions of medical research
- First encounters, first impressions
- Ethical recruitment and gathering human subjects
- Finding an ethical balance
- Coming to an ethical end
- The experiment ends : modern medical research and historical residue.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780821445341
- 0821445340
- OCLC:
- 927593276
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