Evidence, Ethos and Experiment

P. Wenzel Geissler teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He studied medical zoology in Hamburg and Copenhagen and social anthropology in Copenhagen and Cambridge. Since 1993 he has worked in western Kenya, conducting first medical research and then several years of ethnographic fieldwork. Currently he is writing an ethnography of post-colonial scientific research in Kisumu, Kenya.

Introduction: Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa

P. Wenzel Geissler

This chapter is available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust.



Engagements



Chapter 1. Writing Knowledge and Acknowledgement: Possibilities in Medical Research

Susan Reynolds Whyte



Chapter 2. Can one Rely on Knowledge?

Marilyn Strathern



Chapter 3. Being 'with MRC': Infant Care and the Social Meanings of Cohort Membership in Gambia's Plural Therapeutic Landscapes

Melissa Leach and James Fairhead



Chapter 4. Contextualising Ethics in AIDS Research: or, the Morality of Knowledge Production in Ethnographic Fieldwork on ‘the Unspeakable’

Hansjörg Dilger



Chapter 5. Testing a New Drug for Leprosy: Clofazimine and its Precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966

John Manton



Chapter 6. Elucidating Ethics in Practice -- Focus on Accountability

George Ulrich



Evidence



Chapter 7. When Physicians Meet: Local Medical Knowledge and Global Public Goods

Steven Feierman



Chapter 8. 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



Chapter 9. Remember Bambali: Evidence, Ethics and the Co-Production of Truth

Ann Kelly



Chapter 10. Foetuses, Facts and Frictions: Insights from Ultrasound Research in Tanzania

Babette Müller-Rockstroh



Chapter 11. Healers and Scientists: The Epistemological Politics of Research about Medicinal Plants in Tanzania or ‘Moving Away from Traditional Medicine’

Stacey A. Langwick



Chapter 12. Parasite Lost. Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists

P. Wenzel Geissler



Chapter 13. 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



Politics



Chapter 14. The Historical Interface between the State and Medical Science in Africa: Kenya’s Case

Kenneth S. Ombongi



Chapter 15. The intimate rules of the French Coopération: Morality, Race and the Postcolonial Division of Scientific Work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon

Guillaume Lachenal



Chapter 16. The Mosquito Taken at the Beer-Hall’: Malaria Research and Control on Zambia’s Copperbelt

Lyn Schumaker



Chapter 17. Trial Communities: HIV and Therapeutic Citizenship in West Africa

Vin-Kim Nguyen



Chapter 18. Differences in Medicine, Differences in Ethics: or, When is it Research and When is it Kidnapping or is That Even the Right Question?

Luise White



Index