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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa (Relié)
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Résumé
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 historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
Drawing on rich ethnographic and historiographic material, this volume represents the emergent field of anthropological inquiry that links Africanist ethnography to recent concerns with science, the state and the culture of late capitalism in Africa.
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- Date de parution : 01/09/2011
- Editeur : BERGHAHN BOOKS
- ISBN : 978-0-85745-092-0
- EAN : 9780857450920
- Format : Grand Format
- Présentation : Relié
- Nb. de pages : 498 pages
- Poids : 0.805 Kg
- Dimensions : 15,7 cm × 23,4 cm × 2,7 cm
À propos des auteurs
P. Wenzel Geissler teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He studied medical zoology in Hamburg and Copenhagen and social anthropology in Copenhagen and Cambridge. Since 1993 he has worked in western Kenya, conducting medical research and, subsequently, ethnographic fieldwork, as a result of which he published (with Ruth Prince) The Land Is Dying : Contingency, Creativity and Conflict (Berghahn, 2010).
Currently he is writing an ethnography of post-colonial scientific research in Kisumu, Kenya. Catherine Molyneux, Ph.D., is employed by Oxford University and has been working as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, since 1994. She currently co-leads the Social and Behavioural Research (SBR) group in Kilifi. Her current research focuses on community accountability and producing new thinking, evidence and recommendations around strengthening community involvement in biomedical research and health delivery in sub-Saharan Africa.
Currently he is writing an ethnography of post-colonial scientific research in Kisumu, Kenya. Catherine Molyneux, Ph.D., is employed by Oxford University and has been working as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, since 1994. She currently co-leads the Social and Behavioural Research (SBR) group in Kilifi. Her current research focuses on community accountability and producing new thinking, evidence and recommendations around strengthening community involvement in biomedical research and health delivery in sub-Saharan Africa.
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