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oapen-20.500.12657-334102021-11-09T07:55:22Z Evidence, ethos, and experiment Geissler, Wenzel Molyneux, Catherine history, 20th century biomedical research/history africa cross-cultural comparison human experimentation/history ethics, research/history bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JH Sociology & anthropology::JHM Anthropology bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBS Medical sociology 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. 2014-05-28 00:00:00 2020-04-01T14:43:18Z 2020-04-01T14:43:18Z 2011 book 478050 OCN: 769188693 9780857450937 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/33410 eng Berghahn Books 10.26530/OAPEN_478050 10.26530/OAPEN_478050 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 3e4cd488-610f-4b42-bd93-88ddd573de64 8e5257ae-3cd1-4318-add2-c82834b1e404 9780857450937 open access
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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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