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Evidence, ethos, and experiment : the anthropology and history of medical research in Africa
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ISBN: 9781785335006 9780857450920 1785335006 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY Berghahn Books

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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 historiogra

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