Includes bibliographical references and index.

Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa / P. We nzel Geissler -- Writing knowledge and acknowledgement: possibilities i n medical research / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- Can one rely on knowledge? / Marilyn Strathern -- Being 'with MRC': infant care and the social me anings of cohort membership in Gambia's plural therapeutic landscapes / Melissa Leach and James Fairhead -- Contextualising ethics in AIDS res earch: or, the morality of knowledge production in ethnographic fieldwo rk on 'the unspeakable' / Hansjèorg Dilger -- Testing a new drug for le prosy: clofazimine and its precursors in Ireland and Nigeria, 1944-1966 / John Manton -- Elucidating ethics in practice: focus on accountabili ty / George Ulrich -- When physicians meet: local medical knowledge and global public goods / Steven Feierman -- The plausibility design, quas i-experiments, and real world research: a case study from the interdisc iplinary monitoring project for antimalarial combination treatment in T anzania / S. Patrick Kachur -- Remember Bambali: evidence, ethics and t he co-production of truth / Ann Kelly -- Foetuses, facts and frictions: insights from ultrasound research in Tanzania / Babette Mèuller-Rockst roh -- Healers and scientists: the epistemological politics of research about medicinal plants in Tanzania, or 'moving away from traditional m edicine' / Stacey A. Langwick -- Parasite lost: remembering modern time s with Kenyan government medical scientists / P. Wenzel Geissler -- Is the sharia of the doctors killing the people? a local debate on ethics and the control of HIV/AIDS in a rural area in Kenya / Suzette Heald -- The historical interface between the state and medical science in Afri ca: Kenya's case / Kenneth S. Ombongi -- The intimate rules of the Fren ch coopâeration : morality, race and the postcolonial division of scien tific work at the Pasteur Institute of Cameroon / Guillaume Lachenal -- 'The mosquito taken at the beer-hall': malaria research and control on Zambia's copperbelt / Lyn Schumaker -- Trial communities: HIV and ther apeutic citizenship in West Africa / Vin-Kim Nguyen -- Differences in m edicine, differences in ethics: or, When is it research and when is it kidnapping, or is that even the right question? / Luise White.