{"product_id":"evidence-ethos-and-experiment-the-anthropology-and-history-of-medical-research-in-africa-9781785335006","title":"Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: The Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tMedical 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“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 whole sections of the book, will be particularly useful for teaching at the upper-division undergraduate or graduate levels.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Medical Anthropology Quarterly\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“…a series of compelling and well written chapters…Considering the explosion of medical research in Africa in the age of global health, Evidence, ethos and experiment is a valuable and much-needed contribution to the development of multiple contextual frameworks for historical and contemporary medical research in Africa and elsewhere.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Social Anthropology\/Anthropologie sociale\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The book is instructive, interesting and innovative. it draws on strong empirical work and opens up significant discussions concerning epistemological and ethical issues and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars, including medical anthropology, history, medicine, science and epidemiology.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Tijdschrift Medische Antropologie\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an extremely interesting and innovative collection with unusual empirical richness, with ethical and epistemological discussions cutting across anthropology, medicine, history, epidemiology and other disciplines.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Lotte Meinert\u003c\/strong\u003e, Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eP. Wenzel Geissler\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eThis chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEngagements\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1. \u003c\/strong\u003eWriting Knowledge and Acknowledgement: Possibilities in Medical Research\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSusan Reynolds Whyte\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2. \u003c\/strong\u003eCan one Rely on Knowledge?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarilyn Strathern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eBeing 'with MRC': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMelissa Leach\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJames Fairhead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eContextualising Ethics in AIDS Research: or, the Morality of Knowledge Production in Ethnographic Fieldwork on ‘the Unspeakable’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHansjörg Dilger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eTesting a New Drug for Leprosy: Clofazimine and its Precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJohn Manton\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6. \u003c\/strong\u003eElucidating Ethics in Practice -- Focus on Accountability\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGeorge Ulrich\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eEvidence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7. \u003c\/strong\u003eWhen Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSteven Feierman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Plausibility Design, Quasi-Experiments, and Real World Research: a Case Study from the Interdisciplinary Monitoring Project for Antimalarial Combination Treatment in Tanzania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eS. Patrick Kachur\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eRemember Bambali: Evidence, Ethics and the Co-Production of Truth\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAnn Kelly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eFoetuses, Facts and Frictions: Insights from Ultrasound Research in Tanzania\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eBabette Müller-Rockstroh\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11. \u003c\/strong\u003eHealers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania or ‘Moving Away from Traditional Medicine’\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eStacey A. Langwick\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eParasite Lost. Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eP. Wenzel Geissler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13. \u003c\/strong\u003eIs 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\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSuzette Heald\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePolitics\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Historical Interface between the State and Medical Science in Africa: Kenya’s Case\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eKenneth S. Ombongi\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe intimate rules of the French Coopération: Morality, Race and the Postcolonial Division of Scientific Work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eGuillaume Lachenal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Mosquito Taken at the Beer-Hall’: Malaria Research and Control on Zambia’s Copperbelt\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLyn Schumaker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 17. \u003c\/strong\u003eTrial Communities: HIV and Therapeutic Citizenship in West Africa\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eVin-Kim Nguyen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 18. \u003c\/strong\u003eDifferences in Medicine, Differences in Ethics: or, When is it Research and When is it Kidnapping or is That Even the Right Question?\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eLuise White\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042394833239,"sku":"9781785335006","price":30.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781785335006.jpg?v=1750954023","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/evidence-ethos-and-experiment-the-anthropology-and-history-of-medical-research-in-africa-9781785335006","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}