Blinding Authority

Randomized Clinical Trials and the Production of Global Scientific Knowledge in Contemporary Sri Lanka

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5337364
AutoresBob Simpson (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom, autor de correspondencia), Sakari Sariola (0000-0003-3401-7727, Durham University), Salla Sariola (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom)
Año2012
Volumen37
Número5
Páginas555-575
Fecha de publicación2012-09-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaScience Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0162243911432648
OpenAlexW2016494292
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas12
Referencias citadas24

In this article, the authors present an ethnography of biomedical knowledge production and science collaboration when they take place in developing country contexts. The authors focus on the arrival of international clinical trials to Sri Lanka and provide analysis of what was described as one of the first multisited trials in the country, a pharmaceutical company sponsored, phase 2, randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial carried out between 2009 and 2010. Using interviews with those who conducted the trial and six months of participant observation at the trial hospital, the authors describe the work that goes on to perform trials according to international standards. The article describes what happens when a randomized controlled trial encounters existing epistemic virtues and documents the impacts on ideas of authority, expertise and doctor-patient relationships found in Sri Lankan medicine

Alternative medicine · Blinding · Clinical trial · Ethnography · Family medicine · Medical education · Pathology · Political science · Public relations · Randomized controlled trial · Sociology · South asia · Sri lanka · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Engineering · Ethics in Clinical Research · Global Health and Surgery · Medicine · Psychology · Surgery