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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa [Kietas viršelis]

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  • Formatas: Hardback, 508 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 807 g, Bibliography; Index; 32 Illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2011
  • Leidėjas: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 0857450921
  • ISBN-13: 9780857450920
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  • Formatas: Hardback, 508 pages, aukštis x plotis: 229x152 mm, weight: 807 g, Bibliography; Index; 32 Illustrations
  • Išleidimo metai: 01-Sep-2011
  • Leidėjas: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN-10: 0857450921
  • ISBN-13: 9780857450920
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Raktažodžiai:
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 historiographic anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state, and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.

"This is an extremely interesting and innovative collection with unusual empirical richness, with ethical and epistemological discussions cutting across anthropology, medicine, history, epidemiology and other disciplines." - Lotte Meinert, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University

Recenzijos

Each of the chapters is noteworthy. Together, they offer a promising opportunity to broaden the field of postcolonial science studies in ways that remind us how ethicality is at the heart of these encounters of science the volume will be useful to medical anthropologists, science studies scholars, and generalist scholars of Africa and global health. Individual chapters, as well as whole sections of the book, will be particularly useful for teaching at the upper-division undergraduate or graduate levels. Medical Anthropology Quarterly





a series of compelling and well written chaptersConsidering the explosion of medical research in Africa in the age of global health, Evidence, ethos and experiment is a valuable and much-needed contribution to the development of multiple contextual frameworks for historical and contemporary medical research in Africa and elsewhere. Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale





The book is instructive, interesting and innovative. it draws on strong empirical work and opens up significant discussions concerning epistemological and ethical issues and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including medical anthropology, history, medicine, science and epidemiology. Tijdschrift Medische Antropologie





This is an extremely interesting and innovative collection with unusual empirical richness, with ethical and epistemological discussions cutting across anthropology, medicine, history, epidemiology and other disciplines. Lotte Meinert, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University

List of Figures
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Introduction Studying Trial Communities: Anthropological and Historical Inquiries into Ethos, Politics and Economy of Medical Research in Africa 1(28)
P. Wenzel Geissler
Engagements
1 Writing Knowledge and Acknowledgement: Possibilities in Medical Research
29(28)
Susan Reynolds Whyte
2 Can One Rely on Knowledge?
57(20)
Marilyn Strathern
3 Being `with Medical Research Council': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes
77(22)
Melissa Leach
James Fairhead
4 Contextualizing Ethics: Or, the Morality of Knowledge Production in Ethnographic Fieldwork on `the Unspeakable'
99(26)
Hansjorg Dilger
5 Testing a New Drug for Leprosy: Clofazimine and Its Precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966
125(20)
John Manton
6 Elucidating Ethics in Practice: Focus on Accountability
145(26)
George Ulrich
Evidence
7 When Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods
171(26)
Steven Feierman
8 The Plausibility Design, Quasi-experiments, and Real-world Research: A Case Study of Antimalarial Combination Treatment in Tanzania
197(32)
S. Patrick Kachur
9 Remember Bambali: Evidence, Ethics and the Co-production of Truth
229(16)
Ann Kelly
10 Foetuses, Facts and Frictions: Insights from Ultrasound Research in Tanzania
245(18)
Babette Muller-Rockstroh
11 Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania or `Moving Away from Traditional Medicine'
263(34)
Stacey A. Langwick
12 Parasite Lost: Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists
297(36)
P. Wenzel Geissler
13 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
333(20)
Suzette Heald
Politics
14 The Historical Interface between the State and Medical Science in Africa: Kenya's Case
353(20)
Kenneth S. Ombongi
15 The Intimate Rules of the French Cooperation: Morality, Race and the Postcolonial Division of Scientific Work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon
373(30)
Guillaume Lachenal
16 The Mosquito Taken at the Beerhall: Malaria Research and Control on Zambia's Copperbelt
403(26)
Lyn Schumaker
17 Trial Communities: HIV and Therapeutic Citizenship in West Africa
429(16)
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
18 Differences in Medicine, Differences in Ethics: Or, When is It Research and When is It Kidnapping or is That Even the Right Question?
445(18)
Luise White
Notes on Contributors 463(10)
Index 473
P. Wenzel Geissler teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He studied medical zoology in Hamburg and Copenhagen and social anthropology in Copenhagen and Cambridge. Since 1993 he has worked in western Kenya, conducting first medical research and then several years of ethnographic fieldwork. Currently he is writing an ethnography of post-colonial scientific research in Kisumu, Kenya.