TY - CHAP AU - Geissler, Wenzel AU - Molyneux, Catherine AB - 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. DO - 10.26530/oapen_478050 ID - OAPEN ID: 1000013 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1132222309 KW - history, 20th century KW - biomedical research/history KW - africa KW - cross-cultural comparison KW - human experimentation/history KW - ethics, research/history KW - history KW - 20th century KW - biomedical research/history KW - africa KW - cross-cultural comparison KW - human experimentation/history KW - ethics KW - research/history KW - Anthropology KW - Clinical trial KW - Epistemology KW - Ethnography KW - Ethos KW - Medicine KW - Public health L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/bca43d0e-5322-4713-a1d8-7b82c1a1991c/1000013.pdf LA - English LK - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29941 PB - Berghahn Books PY - 2011 SN - 9780857450937 TI - Chapter Introduction Studying Trial Communities: Anthropological and Historical Inquiries into Ethos, Politics and Economy of Medical Research in Africa : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa ER -