Evidence, ethos and experiment: the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa

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New York: Berghahn Books (2011)
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Being 'with MRC': infant care and the social meanings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes.Melissa Leach & James Fairhead
Healers and scientists: the epistemological politics of research about medicinal plants in Tanzania, or 'moving away from traditional medicine'.Stacey A. Langwick
Is the sharia of the doctors killing the people? a local debate on ethics and the control of HIV/AIDS in a rural area in Kenya.Suzette Heald
Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa.P. Wenzel Geissler
The plausibility design, quasi-experiments, and real world research: a case study from the interdisciplinary monitoring project for antimalarial combination treatment in Tanzania.S. Patrick Kachur
Writing knowledge and acknowledgement: possibilities in medical research.Susan Reynolds Whyte
Can one rely on knowledge?  (pages 57)Marilyn Strathern
Being 'with the Medical Research Council': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes.  (pages 77)Melissa Leach & James Fairhead
Contextualising ethics in AIDS research: or, the morality of knowledge production in ethnographic fieldwork on 'the unspeakable'.  (pages 99)Hansjörg Dilger
Testing a new drug for leprosy: clofazimine and its precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966.  (pages 125)John Manton
Elucidating ethics in practice: focus on accountability.  (pages 145)George Ulrich
When physicians meet: local medical knowledge and global public goods.  (pages 171)Steven Feierman
Remember Bambali: evidence, ethics and the co-production of truth.  (pages 229)Ann Kelly
Foetuses, facts and frictions: insights from ultrasound research in Tanzania.  (pages 245)Babette Müller-Rockstroh
Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania.  (pages 263)Stacey A. Langwick
Parasite lost: remembering modern times with Kenyan government medical scientists.  (pages 297--332)P. Wenzel Geissler
The historical interface between the state and medical science in Africa: Kenya's case.  (pages 353--372)Kenneth S. Ombongi
The intimate rules of the French coopération : morality, race and the postcolonial division of scientific work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon.  (pages 373--402)Guillaume Lachenal
The mosquito taken at the beer-hall': malaria research and control on Zambia's copperbelt.  (pages 403)Lyn Schumaker
Trial communities: HIV and therapeutic citizenship in West Africa.  (pages 429)Vin-Kim Nguyen
Differences in medicine, differences in ethics: or, When is it research and when is it kidnapping, or is that even the right question?  (pages 445)Luise White

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