Collaborators Collaborating: Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations

✍ Scribed by Monica Konrad (editor)

• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 326
• Category: Library

✦ 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, 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

Contents
Preface
I Intersections and Alignments
Chapter 1 A Feel for Detail: New Directions in Collaborative Anthropology
Chapter 2 An Amazon Plant in Clinical Trial: Intersections of Knowledge and Practice
II Transactions and Benefits
Chapter 3 Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The Gambia
Chapter 4 Transacting Knowledge, Transplanting Organs: Collaborative Scientific Partnerships in Mongolia
III Currencies and Imperatives
Chapter 5 Currencies of Collaboration
Chapter 6 Collaborative Imperatives: A Manifesto, of Sorts, for the Reimagination of the Classic Scene of Fieldwork Encounter
IV Research and Ethics
Chapter 7 Building Capacity: A Sri Lankan Perspective on Research, Ethics and Accountability
Chapter 8 Global Clinical Trials and the Contextualization of Research
V Alliances and Diversity
Chapter 9 The Performance of Global Health R&D Alliances and Interdisciplinary Research Approaches
Chapter 10 Partial Lineages in Diversity Research
VI Expertises and Attributions
Chapter 11 Meeting Minds; Encountering Worlds: Sciences and Other Expertises on the North Slope of Alaska
Chapter 12 Recognizing Scholarly Subjects in the Politics of Nature: Problematizing Collaboration in Southeast Asian Area Studies
Afterword: Enabling Environments? Polyphony in 53
Notes on Contributors
Index