Collaborators Collaborating: Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

ISBN 10: 0857454803 ISBN 13: 9780857454805

Publisher: Berghahn Books, 2012

Synopsis

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, investigate the forms of collaborative knowledge relations needed 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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About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0857454803
• ISBN 13: 9780857454805
• Binding: Library Binding
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 326
• Editor: Konrad Monica