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Ann H. (Hrsg.) Kelly

The Value of Transnational Medical Research

Labour, Participation and Care

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What is the value of medical research? With contributions from anthropologists, sociologists and activists, this approach brings into focus the forms of value - social, epistemic, and economic - that are involved in medical research practices and how these values intersect with everyday living. Though their work covers wide empirical ground -from HIV trials in Kenya and drug donation programs in Tanzania to industry-academic collaborations in the British National Health Service - the authors share a commitment to understanding the practices of medical research as embedded in both local social worlds and global markets. Their collective concer… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Geissler, P. Wenzel (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-135-75927-8
  • EAN: 9781135759278
  • Produktnummer: 33099647
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 144 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'733 KB

Über den Autor


Ann H. Kelly is a Lecturer with the Anthropologies of African Biosciences Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK. Her work focuses on the production of scientific facts in Africa, with special attention to the built-environments, material artifacts and practical labors of experimentation. P. Wenzel Geissler, who qualified as a tropical parasitologist and social anthropologist, teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway, and the London School of Hygiene, UK. He recently published (with prints) The Land is Dying, and is currently working on an ethnography of medical research in Western Kenya.

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