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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
P. Wenzel Geissler (Ed.)
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Description for Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Paperback. 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. Editor(s): Geissler, P. Wenzel; Molyneux, Catherine. Num Pages: 452 pages, 32 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JHM; MBS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
508
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781785335006
SKU
V9781785335006
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About P. Wenzel Geissler (Ed.)
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 first medical research and then several years of ethnographic fieldwork. Currently he is writing an ... Read more
Reviews for Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Each of the chapters is noteworthy. Together, they offer a promising opportunity to broaden the field of postcolonial science studies in ways that remind us how ethicality is at the heart of these encounters of science... the volume will be useful to medical anthropologists, science studies scholars, and generalist scholars of Africa and global health. Individual chapters, as well as ... Read more