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Kalimna Heights
Robert Simpson
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In Research as Development, Salla Sariola and Bob Simpson show how
international collaboration operates in a setting that is typically
portrayed as "resource-poor" and "scientifically lagging." Based on
their long-term fieldwork in Sri Lanka, Sariola and Simpson bring
into clear ethnographic focus the ways international scientific
collaborations feature prominently in the pursuit of global health
in which research operates "as" development and not merely "for"
it. The authors follow the design, inception, and practice of two
clinical trials: one a global health charity funded trial and the
other a pharmaceutical industry-sponsored trial. Research as
Development situates these two trials within their historical,
political and cultural contexts and thus counters the idea that
local actors are merely passive recipients of new technical and
scientific rationalities. While social studies of clinical trials
are beginning to be an established niche in academic writing,
Research as Development helps fill important gaps in the literature
through its examination of clinical research situated in cultures
in low-income settings. Research as Development is noteworthy for
the way it highlights the critical and creative role that local
researchers play in establishing international collaborations and
making them work into locally viable forms. The volume shows how
these clinical and research interactions bring about changes in
culture, technologies and expertise in Sri Lanka, contexts that
have not previously been written about in any detail.
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