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Research as Development, a dynamic contribution to the sub-field of the anthropology of clinical trials, offers an astute study of what it means to work together now that the global rise of bioethics has carved out a space for anthropologists. -- Ayo Wahlberg, Professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, author of <I>Good Quality</I> Research as Development illustrates how concepts taken for granted by ethics boards, biomedical researchers and even anthropologists-ethics, collaboration, research itself-are contingent and negotiated, constitute and constituted by research worlds and networks. -- Crystal Biruk, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oberlin College, and author of <I>Cooking Data</I>

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Salla Sariola is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at University of Helsinki, Finland. Her research concerns the ethics and politics of biomedical research, as well as gender and sexuality, with fieldwork across South Asia and Africa. Sariola is also the author of Gender and Sexuality and the coordinating editor of Science and Technology Studies. Bob Simpson is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham whose research focuses on Bioethics, Biomedicine, and Biotechnologies. His work explores challenging technological developments in fields such as reproductive and genetic medicine, organ and tissue transplantation and local systems of values and beliefs in South Asia and Europe.

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