Where techno-science meets poverty
Medical research and the economy of blood in The Gambia, West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4596191 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Fairhead (University of Sussex), Macedward Leach (0000-0002-1293-6848, Institute of Development Studies), Melissa Leach (0000-0002-8435-5401), Mary Small (University of Sussex) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 63 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1109-1120 |
| Publication date | 2006-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Science & Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0277-9536 • E-ISSN: 1873-5347 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.socscimed.2006.02.018 |
| PMID | 16630676 |
| OpenAlex | W2134841393 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 79 |
| References cited | 25 |
Alternative medicine · Bioethics · Economic growth · Economics · Ethnography · Government (linguistics · Informed consent · Medical anthropology · Medical research · Political science · Poverty · Public relations · Research ethics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Blood donation and transfusion practices · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Medicine · Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy
Sniff and Tell
A systematic review of qualitative findings on factors enabling and deterring uptake of HIV testing in Sub-Saharan Africa
The Way Blood Flows
The Politics of the Second Vaccine
Clinical research on Covid-19
‘Pneumonia has gone’
Conflicts and Compromises? Experiences of Doing Anthropology at the Interface of Public Policy
Attitudes towards and experiences with economic incentives for engagement in HIV care and treatment
‘Why would they spend all this money and give us these items for free?’
Healthcare workers’ beliefs, practices and experiences regarding the Covid-19 pandemic and resulting governance from preparedness and response plans in Faranah, Guinea
Engaging Diverse Social and Cultural Worlds
Evolving Friendships and Shifting Ethical Dilemmas
‘She's My Sister‐In‐Law, My Visitor, My Friend’ – Challenges of Staff Identity in Home Follow‐Up in an HIV Trial in W estern K enya
Determinants of HIV testing behaviour among male South African construction workers
The way blood flows
The Politics of Local Biology in Transnational Drug Testing
Barriers to uptake of antenatal maternal screening tests in Senegal
Okukkera Ng'omuzungu (lost in translation)
In the Project They Really Care for Us’
Rethinking our Rigor Mortis
Promoting Multi-methods Research
Rumours about blood and reimbursements in a microbicide gel trial
Rumours' and clinical trials
Power, fairness and trust
Reluctance to Do Blood Testing Limits HIV Diagnosis and Appropriate Health Care of Sub-Saharan African Migrants Living in Spain
Community engagement in an economy of harms
The ethics and politics of community engagement in global health research
Engaging religious leaders to support HIV prevention and care for gays, bisexual men, and other men who have sex with men in coastal Kenya
Emergent HIV technology
Tailoring Information Provision and Consent Processes to Research Contexts
From subjects to relations
A home for science
The hospital and the hospital
Misconceptions, Misinformation, and Misperceptions
A Research Enclave in 1940s Nigeria
Hold on’ ( Bambelela )! Lyrical interpretations of participation in an HIV prevention clinical trial
Understanding Social Resistance to the Ebola Response in the Forest Region of the Republic of Guinea
Vaccinations, Pills, and Resistance
Bush Bound
Experiencing everyday ethics in context
Failed Recipients
Ethics and the ethnography of medical research in Africa
Antiretroviral therapy in Zambia
Channeling hope
The social dynamics of consent and refusal in HIV surveillance in rural South Africa
He is now like a brother, I can even give him some blood' - Relational ethics and material exchanges in a malaria vaccine 'trial community' in The Gambia
Reassembling epidemiology
Like sugar and honey
Investigating the potential for ethnic group harm in collaborative genomics research in Africa
Whenever they cry, I cry with them
Data value and care value in the practice of health systems
Protection, health seeking, or a laissez-passer
They don't want our blood
Health interventions and the persistence of rumour
We are the heroes because we are ready to die for this country
"Are You Sure It's Not the Corona Vaccine?" An Ebola Vaccine Trial During Covid-19 in DRC
Going South. How STS could think science in and with the South
Alleviative Bleeding
Introduction
The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology
Cultivating Hustlers
Les STS ont-elles un Sud
Foregrounding possibilities and backgrounding exploitation in transnational medical research projects in Lusaka, Zambia
Idioms of resilience among cancer patients in urban South Africa
Informed Consent
Rumor as ethical vernacular
Experimental Entanglements
Ethical Gifts
In/dependent Collaborations
Commodified Cadavers and the Political Economy of the Spectacle1
The ends of cutting in Ghana
Public secrets in public health
Clinical Trials As An Industry And An Employer Of Labour
Saying 'No' to PrEP research in Malawi
HIV has a woman's face
Speaking with vampires and angels
Clean Blood, Religion, and Moral Triage in Tuberculosis Vaccine Trials
Repellents and New "Spaces of Concern" in Global Health
Re-visioning Local Biologies
Public Engagement With Science? Local Understandings of a Vaccine Trial in the Gambia
Land, Labour and Diet in Northern Rhodesia
Reframing Public Policy
Speaking with Vampires
Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction
Magical Interpretations, Material Realities
Misunderstanding Science
Science and Citizens
Science and Citizens, Globalization and the Challenge of Engagement
Postcolonial Technoscience
Breaking the Waves in Science Studies
The social shaping of childhood vaccination practice in rural and urban Gambia
Contingent Lives
Radiance from the Waters
Le lait, le sperme, le dos. Et le sang
Contingent Lives
Injections and the fear of death
Radiance from the Waters
Organ Transplantation as a Transformative Experience
Kachinjaare Coming
Speaking with Vampires
Occult economies and the violence of abstraction
Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal
| Unique citing works | 79 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,16 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2026 (20) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 78 |