ISBN:
9780857450920
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1283326515
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9780857450920
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9780857450937
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9781283326513
Language:
English
Pages:
x, 498 p
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Evidence, Ethos and Experiment : The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Human Experimentation History
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Cross-Cultural Comparison
;
Ethics, Research History
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Biomedical Research History
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History, 20th Century
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Evidence, Ethos and Experiment; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: Studying Trial Communities: Anthropological and Historical Inquiries into Ethos, Politics and Economy of Medical Research in Africa; Chapter 1: Writing Knowledge and Acknowledgement; Chapter 2: Can One Rely on Knowledge?; Chapter 3: Being 'with the Medical Research Council': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes; Chapter 4: Contextualizing Ethics: Or, the Morality of Knowledge Production in Ethnographic Fieldwork on 'the Unspeakable'
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5: Testing a New Drug for Leprosy: Clofazimine and Its Precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966Chapter 6: Elucidating Ethics in Practice: Focus on Accountability; Chapter 7: When Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods; Chapter 8: The Plausibility Design, Quasiexperiments and Real-world Research: A Case Study of Antimalarial Combination Treatment in Tanzania; Chapter 9: Remember Bambali: Evidence, Ethics and the Co-production of Truth; Chapter 10: Foetuses, Facts and Frictions: Insights from Ultrasound Research in Tanzania
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 11: Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in TanzaniaChapter 12: Parasite Lost: Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists; Chapter 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; Chapter 14: The Historical Interface between the State and Medical Science in Africa: Kenya's Case
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 15: The Intimate Rules of the French Coopération: Morality, Race and the Postcolonial Division of Scientific Work at the Pasteur Institute of CameroonChapter 16: The Mosquito Taken at the Beerhall: Malaria Research and Control on Zambia's Copperbelt; Chapter 17: Trial Communities: HIV and Therapeutic Citizenship in West Africa; Chapter 18: Differences in Medicine, Differences in Ethics: Or, When is It Research and When is It Kidnapping or is That Event he Right Question?; Notes on Contributors; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
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 --^
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
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 --^
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
,
Electronic reproduction Available via World Wide Web
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