MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2011019540
003 DLC
005 20110822102803.0
008 110505s2011 ilu b 001 0 eng c
010 $a 2011019540
020 $a9780857450920 (hardback : alk. paper)
020 $a9780857450937 (ebook)
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050 00 $aR725.5$bE93 2011
082 00 $a615.5072/4096$223
245 00 $aEvidence, ethos and experiment :$bthe anthropology and history of medical research in Africa /$cedited by P. Wenzel Geissler and C. Molyneux.
260 $aNew York :$bBerghahn Books,$c2011.
263 $a1109
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aStudying 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.
650 0 $aMedicine$xResearch$xMoral and ethical aspects$zAfrica.
650 0 $aHuman experimentation in medicine$xMoral and ethical aspects$zAfrica.
650 0 $aMedical ethics.
700 1 $aGeissler, Wenzel.
700 1 $aMolyneux, Catherine.