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Berghahn Books Collaborators Collaborating Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations 2012 Edition by Monica Konrad
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. Table of contents : - PrefacePART I: INTERSECTIONS AND ALIGNMENTSChapter 1. A Feel for Detail: New Directions in Collaborative AnthropologyMonica KonradChapter 2. An Amazon Plant in Clinical Trial: Intersections of Knowledge and PracticeFrancoise Barbira-FreedmanPART II: TRANSACTIONS AND BENEFITSChapter 3. Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The GambiaPaul Wenzel Geissler, Ann Kelly, Babatunde Imoukhuede & Robert PoolChapter 4. Transacting Knowledge, Transplanting Organs: Collaborative Scientific Partnerships in MongoliaRebecca EmpsonPART III: CURRENCIES AND IMPERATIVESChapter 5. Currencies of CollaborationMarilyn StrathernChapter 6. Collaborative Imperatives: A Manifesto, of Sorts, for the Reimagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork EncounterDouglas Holmes & George E. MarcusPART IV: RESEARCH AND ETHICSChapter 7. Building Capacity: A Sri Lankan Perspective on Research, Ethics and AccountabilityRobert Simpson Chapter 8. Global Clinical Trials and the Contextualization of ResearchAnn KellyPART V: ALLIANCES AND DIVERSITYChapter 9. The Performance of Global Health R&D Alliances and Interdisciplinary Research ApproachesSonja MarjanovicChapter 10. Partial Lineages in Diversity ResearchAmade M.CharekPART VI: EXPERTISES AND ATTRIBUTIONSChapter 11. Meeting Minds Encountering Worlds: Sciences and Other Expertises on the North Slope of AlaskaBarbara BodenhornChapter 12. Recognizing Scholarly Subjects in the Politics of Nature: Problematizing Collaboration in Southeast Asian Area StudiesCelia LoweAfterword: Enabling Environments? Polyphony in 53Monica KonradNotes on ContributorsIndex