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

• Autore: Geissler Wenzel
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Berghahn Books, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (508 pages)
• Disciplina: 615.5072/4096
• Soggetto topico: Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects - Africa; Human experimentation in medicine - Moral and ethical aspects - Africa; Medical ethics
• Soggetto non controllato: history, 20th century; biomedical research/history; africa; cross-cultural comparison; human experimentation/history; ethics, research/history; history; 20th century; ethics; research/history; Field research; Kenya; Kinship; Kisumu; Malaria; Mosquito; Public health; Yellow fever
• Altri autori: GeisslerWenzel MolyneuxCatherine
• Note generali: Papers from a conference held in Kilifi, Kenya in 2005.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 historiogra
• Titolo autorizzato: Evidence, ethos, and experiment
• ISBN: 1-283-32651-5; 9786613326515; 0-85745-092-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910650314903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II