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"Graboyes's book reads like a mystery, elegantly weaving history,
science, bioethics and public health into a compelling story. A
profoundly important contribution to the challenges of conducting
medical research in the developing world." -Michael A. Grodin,
M.D., professor of bioethics and human Rights, Boston University
School of Public HealthThe Experiment Must Continue is a
beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical
experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it,
Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in
history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a
medical ethicist and a fine historian. She breathes life into the
fascinating histories of research on human subjects, elucidating
the hopes of the interventionists and the experiences of the
putative beneficiaries. Historical case studies highlight failed
attempts to eliminate tropical diseases, while modern examples
delve into ongoing malaria and HIV/AIDS research. Collectively,
these show how East Africans have perceived research differently
than researchers do and that the active participation of subjects
led to the creation of a hybrid ethical form. By writing an
ethnography of the past and a history of the present, Graboyes
casts medical experimentation in a new light, and makes the
resounding case that we must readjust our dominant ideas of
consent, participation, and exploitation. With global implications,
this lively book is as relevant for scholars as it is for anyone
invested in the place of medicine in society.
Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary
counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African
studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human
rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and
deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse
conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in
love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs,
telling jokes, making videos, playing games, eating delicious food,
and finding pleasure in their daily lives. Across seven
sections--Celebrations and Rites of Passage; Socializing and
Friendship; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Sports and Recreation;
Performance, Language, and Creativity; Technology and Media; and
Labor and Livelihoods--the accessible, multidisciplinary essays in
Africa Every Day address these creative and dynamic elements of
daily life, without romanticizing them. Ultimately, the book shows
that forms of leisure and popular culture in Africa are best
discussed in terms of indigenization, adaptation, and appropriation
rather than the static binary of European/foreign/global and
African. Most of all, it invites readers to reflect on the crucial
similarities, rather than the differences, between their lives and
those of their African counterparts. Contributors: Hadeer
Aboelnagah, Issahaku Adam, Joseph Osuolale Ayodokun, Victoria
Abiola Ayodokun, Omotoyosi Babalola, Martha Bannikov, Mokaya
Bosire, Emily Callaci, Deborah Durham, Birgit Englert, Laura Fair,
John Fenn, Lara Rosenoff Gauvin, Michael Gennaro, Lisa Gilman,
Charlotte Grabli, Joshua Grace, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Akwasi
Kumi-Kyereme, Prince F. M. Lamba, Cheikh Tidiane Lo, Bill McCoy,
Nginjai Paul Moreto, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue, James
Nindi, Erin Nourse, Eric Debrah Otchere, Alex Perullo, Daniel
Jordan Smith, Maya Smith, Steven Van Wolputte, and Scott M.
Youngstedt.
Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and necessary
counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory African
studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and human
rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real and
deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse
conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in
love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs,
telling jokes, making videos, playing games, eating delicious food,
and finding pleasure in their daily lives. Across seven
sections--Celebrations and Rites of Passage; Socializing and
Friendship; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Sports and Recreation;
Performance, Language, and Creativity; Technology and Media; and
Labor and Livelihoods--the accessible, multidisciplinary essays in
Africa Every Day address these creative and dynamic elements of
daily life, without romanticizing them. Ultimately, the book shows
that forms of leisure and popular culture in Africa are best
discussed in terms of indigenization, adaptation, and appropriation
rather than the static binary of European/foreign/global and
African. Most of all, it invites readers to reflect on the crucial
similarities, rather than the differences, between their lives and
those of their African counterparts. Contributors: Hadeer
Aboelnagah, Issahaku Adam, Joseph Osuolale Ayodokun, Victoria
Abiola Ayodokun, Omotoyosi Babalola, Martha Bannikov, Mokaya
Bosire, Emily Callaci, Deborah Durham, Birgit Englert, Laura Fair,
John Fenn, Lara Rosenoff Gauvin, Michael Gennaro, Lisa Gilman,
Charlotte Grabli, Joshua Grace, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Akwasi
Kumi-Kyereme, Prince F. M. Lamba, Cheikh Tidiane Lo, Bill McCoy,
Nginjai Paul Moreto, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue, James
Nindi, Erin Nourse, Eric Debrah Otchere, Alex Perullo, Daniel
Jordan Smith, Maya Smith, Steven Van Wolputte, and Scott M.
Youngstedt.
"Graboyes's book reads like a mystery, elegantly weaving history,
science, bioethics and public health into a compelling story. A
profoundly important contribution to the challenges of conducting
medical research in the developing world." -Michael A. Grodin,
M.D., professor of bioethics and human Rights, Boston University
School of Public HealthThe Experiment Must Continue is a
beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical
experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it,
Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in
history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a
medical ethicist and a fine historian. She breathes life into the
fascinating histories of research on human subjects, elucidating
the hopes of the interventionists and the experiences of the
putative beneficiaries. Historical case studies highlight failed
attempts to eliminate tropical diseases, while modern examples
delve into ongoing malaria and HIV/AIDS research. Collectively,
these show how East Africans have perceived research differently
than researchers do and that the active participation of subjects
led to the creation of a hybrid ethical form. By writing an
ethnography of the past and a history of the present, Graboyes
casts medical experimentation in a new light, and makes the
resounding case that we must readjust our dominant ideas of
consent, participation, and exploitation. With global implications,
this lively book is as relevant for scholars as it is for anyone
invested in the place of medicine in society.
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