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

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. Medical research...

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Other Authors: Geissler, Wenzel (Editor), Molyneux, Catherine (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
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Summary: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. 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.
Item Description:Papers from a conference held in Kilifi, Kenya in 2005.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 498 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780857450937
085745093X
1283326515
9781283326513
9786613326515
6613326518
Language:English.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.