Collaborators Collaborating : : Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations / / ed. by Monica Konrad.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barbira-Freedman, Françoise,; Bodenhorn, Barbara,; Empson, Rebecca,; Geissler, Paul Wenzel,; Holmes, Douglas,; Imoukhuede, Babatunde,; Kelly, Ann,; Konrad, Monica,; Lowe, Celia,; Marcus, George E.,; Marjanovic, Sonja,; M’charek, Amade,; Pool, Robert,; Simpson, Robert,; Strathern, Marilyn,
• HerausgeberIn: Konrad, Monica,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857454812; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857454812
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. 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.