Evidence, Ethos and Experiment
：The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Publication subTitle ：The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa
Author： Geissler P. Wenzel;Molyneux Catherine
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2011
E-ISBN: 9780857450937
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780857450920
P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780857450920
Subject： R-052 Medical Ethics
Keyword： 一般理论,发展中国家（总论）,社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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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