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

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

Publication Data

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.

Topics

Catalogue Data

ISBD

Buy a copy

OBNB doesn't sell books, but you may be able to find a copy at one of these websites:

Evidence, ethos and experiment : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa. ISBN 9780857450920. Published by Berghahn in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.

obnb.uk is a Good Stuff website.