The Value of Transnational Medical Research

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.

Acknowledgements Foreword Tony Bennett, Liz McFall and Michael Pryke 1. Investigating the Ethics and Economics of Medical Experimentation Ann H. Kelly and P. Wenzel Geissler 2. Clinical Trials as an Industry and an Employer of Labour Morenike Oluwatoyin Folayan and Dan Allman 3. Mutual Benefit, Added Value? Doing research in the National Health Service Catherine M. Will 4. ‘Since We are Taking the Drugs’: Labor and value in two international drug donation programs Ari Samsky 5. Cultural Economy of Racialized Pharmaceuticals in the US Anne Pollock 6. ‘Transport to Where?’: Reflections on the problem of value and time à propos an awkward practice in medical research P. Wenzel Geissler 7. Will He Be There? Mediating malaria, immobilizing science Ann H. Kelly 8. Trial by Accident: Tort law, industrial risks and the history of medical experiment Melinda Cooper