Overview

As bio-capital in the form of medical knowledge, skills and investments moves with greater frequency from its origin in First World industrialized settings to resource-poor communities with weak or little infrastructure, countries with emerging economies are starting to expand new indigenous science bases of their own. The case studies here, from the UK, West Africa, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea, Latin America and elsewhere, explore the forms of collaborative knowledge relations in play and the effects of ethics review and legal systems on local communities, and also demonstrate how anthropologically-informed insights may hope to influence key policy debates. Questions of governance in science and technology, as well as ethical issues related to bio-innovation, are increasingly being featured as topics of complex resourcing and international debate, and this volume is a much-needed resource for interdisciplinary practitioners and specialists in medical anthropology, social theory, corporate ethics, science and technology studies.

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Author:   Monica Konrad
Publisher:   Berghahn Books
Imprint:   Berghahn Books
Weight:   0.562kg
ISBN:  

9780857454805

ISBN 10:   0857454803
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   01 May 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface PART I: INTERSECTIONS AND ALIGNMENTS Chapter 1. A Feel for Detail: New Directions in Collaborative Anthropology Monica Konrad Chapter 2. An Amazon Plant in Clinical Trial: Intersections of Knowledge and Practice Francoise Barbira-Freedman PART II: TRANSACTIONS AND BENEFITS Chapter 3. Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The Gambia Paul Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede & Robert Pool Chapter 4. Transacting Knowledge, Transplanting Organs: Collaborative Scientific Partnerships in Mongolia Rebecca Empson PART III: CURRENCIES AND IMPERATIVES Chapter 5. Currencies of Collaboration Marilyn Strathern Chapter 6. Collaborative Imperatives: A Manifesto, of Sorts, for the Reimagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter Douglas Holmes & George E. Marcus PART IV: RESEARCH AND ETHICS Chapter 7. Building Capacity: A Sri Lankan Perspective on Research, Ethics and Accountability Robert Simpson Chapter 8. Global Clinical Trials and the Contextualization of Research Ann Kelly PART V: ALLIANCES AND DIVERSITY Chapter 9. The Performance of Global Health R&D Alliances and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches Sonja Marjanovic Chapter 10. Partial Lineages in Diversity Research Amade M.Charek PART VI: EXPERTISES AND ATTRIBUTIONS Chapter 11. Meeting Minds; Encountering Worlds: Sciences and Other Expertises on the North Slope of Alaska Barbara Bodenhorn Chapter 12. Recognizing Scholarly Subjects in the Politics of Nature: Problematizing Collaboration in Southeast Asian Area Studies Celia Lowe Afterword: Enabling Environments? Polyphony in 53 Monica Konrad Notes on Contributors Index

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Theoretically ambitious and ethnographically rich, this volume takes a timely and critical look at inter-, trans-, even post-disciplinarity, emphasizing the central importance of exploring actual experiences and cultural contexts for the purpose of addressing the limits and potential of border-crossing and broad collaboration. This is multi-sited scholarship in an extended sense, in terms of disciplinary focus as well as empirical domain, with reasonable respect for the experimental and the playful. * Gisli Palsson, University of Iceland

Author Information

Monica Konrad is a medical anthropologist and former Bye-Fellow / Senior Research Associate of Girton College, University of Cambridge. Her research interests in contemporary ethical and organizational forms range across the arts, architecture and life sciences. She has conducted fieldwork amongst various therapeutic and research communities in relation to personalized healthcare and procreative practices (UK) and essential medicines and global health (Cambodia, Thailand, Europe). Her publications include Nameless Relations (2005) and Narrating the New Predictive Genetics (2005).

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