Evidence, ethos and experiment
Subtitle: the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa
By: edited by P. Wenzel Geissler and C. Molyneux
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780857450920; 9780857450937
Subjects: Moral and ethical aspects; Congresses; Medicine; Medical ethics; Human experimentation in medicine; Research
Notes: Papers from a conference held in Kilifi, Kenya in 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa / P. Wenzel Geissler; title: Writing knowledge and acknowledgement: possibilities in medical research / Susan Reynolds Whyte; title: Can one rely on knowledge? / Marilyn Strathern; title: Being 'with MRC': infant care and the social meanings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead; title: Contextualising ethics in AIDS research: or, the morality of knowledge production in ethnographic fieldwork on 'the unspeakable' / Hansjörg Dilger; title: Testing a new drug for leprosy: clofazimine and its precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966 / John Manton; title: Elucidating ethics in practice: focus on accountability / George Ulrich; title: When physicians meet: local medical knowledge and global public goods / Steven Feierman; title: 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; title: Remember Bambali: evidence, ethics and the co-production of truth / Ann Kelly; title: Foetuses, facts and frictions: insights from ultrasound research in Tanzania / Babette Müller-Rockstroh; title: Healers and scientists: the epistemological politics of research about medicinal plants in Tanzania, or 'moving away from traditional medicine' / Stacey A. Langwick; title: Parasite lost: remembering modern times with Kenyan government medical scientists / P. Wenzel Geissler; title: 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; title: The historical interface between the state and medical science in Africa: Kenya's case / Kenneth S. Ombongi; title: The intimate rules of the French coopération : morality, race and the postcolonial division of scientific work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal; title: 'The mosquito taken at the beer-hall': malaria research and control on Zambia's copperbelt / Lyn Schumaker; title: Trial communities: HIV and therapeutic citizenship in West Africa / Vin-Kim Nguyen; title: 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.