Evidence, ethos and experiment : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa

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.
Subjects:
Medicine > Research > Moral and ethical aspects > Africa > Congresses.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects > Africa > Congresses.
Medical ethics > Congresses.
Cross-cultural studies.
Anthropology.
Medical sociology.
Medicine.
Medicine: general issues.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Healing > General.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Alternative Therapies.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Healing.
MEDICAL > Healing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
Cross-cultural studies
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics
Medicine > Research > Moral and ethical aspects
Africa.
Africa
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of 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.

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