Evidence, ethos and experiment : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa / / edited by P. Wenzel Geissler and C. Molyneux.
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 498 p. |
| Notes: | Papers from a conference held in Kilifi, Kenya in 2005. |
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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' / Hansjorg 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 Muller-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 cooperation : 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.