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... Between 1948 and 1967, the Leprosy Research Unit for Nigeria was stationed at the leprosy hospital and one-time colony at Uzuakoli, and some of the most important research on the chemotherapy of leprosy was carried out there. Drugs tested and standardized at Uzuakoli were circulated...

... Often described as “Africa’s laboratory,” the Gambia, one of the smallest countries in Africa, has offered a site of medical research and public health experimentation for the better part of a century. Drawing from archival and ethnographic materials, this chapter explores the distinct ways...

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... Details of a CIA funding front known as the Human Ecology Fund are examined. The Human Ecology Fund was overseen by Cornell University Medical School neurologist Harold Wolff, MD. The fund secretly received CIA funds and financed a broad range of social and behavioral science research undertaken...

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... This chapter explores the environs of a major medical research center in Africa. The center is owned by the National Clinical Research Organisation (itself explicitly called a para-statal institution) and has, for the past three decades, conducted world-leading research in tropical diseases...

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... of surveillance distracted resources from real health issues, and public health interventions dissolved into spectacle, speculation, and pretence. emerging viruses Cameroon absurdity powerlessness Nathan Wolfe This chapter explores the environs of a major medical research center in Africa...

... One of the discrete institutional innovations of Dr. Snyderman’s tenure as Chancellor was the creation of the Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI). Looked down upon by top-tier medical schools and academic medical centers, clinical research and trials nevertheless seemed to Dr. Snyderman...

... The chapter critically examines the research conducted by Charles Wetli and associates on the tattoos of dead Cuban immigrants who arrived during the Mariel boatlift. By closely examining Wetli's scholarship and work techniques as medical examiner, the author sheds light on how Wetli's White...

... of doing science. It explores instead the global ramifications of the controversy, from Cameroon to California, taking Vanhivax as a symptom of contemporary, global transformations in global biomedicine. medical research Africa Afrocentrism HIV biocapitalism ...

... enterprise in which clinical practice, research, and medical education began to fuse. The leading site of this fusion was the American academic medical center, which began at such leading institutions as Johns Hopkins, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania. Duke University joined the trend in 1924...

... anthropology Details of a CIA funding front known as the Human Ecology Fund are examined. The Human Ecology Fund was overseen by Cornell University Medical School neurologist Harold Wolff, MD. The fund secretly received CIA funds and financed a broad range of social and behavioral science research...