Evidence, ethos, and experiment the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa
Geissler, Wenzel
Evidence, ethos, and experiment the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa - Berghahn Books 2011 - 1 online resource
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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.
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English
9780857450937 OAPEN_478050
10.26530/OAPEN_478050 doi
Anthropology
Medical sociology
africa biomedical research/history cross-cultural comparison ethics, research/history history, 20th century human experimentation/history
Evidence, ethos, and experiment the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa - Berghahn Books 2011 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
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.
All rights reserved
English
9780857450937 OAPEN_478050
10.26530/OAPEN_478050 doi
Anthropology
Medical sociology
africa biomedical research/history cross-cultural comparison ethics, research/history history, 20th century human experimentation/history