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: 1000012
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1132227899
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  - Field research
KW  - Kenya
KW  - Kinship
KW  - Kisumu
KW  - Malaria
KW  - Mosquito
KW  - Public health
KW  - Yellow fever
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/1958dcba-4f45-44e4-a84f-156e28e7d2de/1000012.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29942
PB  - Berghahn Books
PY  - 2011
SN  - 9780857450937
TI  - Chapter 12 Parasite Lost: Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa
ER  - 
