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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,756
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Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa (Hardcover): P. Wenzel Geissler,...

Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa (Hardcover)

P. Wenzel Geissler, Catherine Molyneux

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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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Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 2011
Editors: P. Wenzel Geissler • Catherine Molyneux
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 508
ISBN-13: 978-0-85745-092-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General
Books > Medicine > General issues > Medical equipment & techniques > Medical research
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LSN: 0-85745-092-1
Barcode: 9780857450920

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