Evidence, Ethos and Experiment - The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa - Grand Format

P. Wenzel Geissler teaches social anthropology at the University of Oslo and at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He studied medical zoology in Hamburg and Copenhagen and social anthropology in Copenhagen and Cambridge. Since 1993 he has worked in western Kenya, conducting medical research and, subsequently, ethnographic fieldwork, as a result of which he published (with Ruth Prince) The Land Is Dying : Contingency, Creativity and Conflict (Berghahn, 2010).
Currently he is writing an ethnography of post-colonial scientific research in Kisumu, Kenya. Catherine Molyneux, Ph.D., is employed by Oxford University and has been working as part of the KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme in Kilifi, Kenya, since 1994. She currently co-leads the Social and Behavioural Research (SBR) group in Kilifi. Her current research focuses on community accountability and producing new thinking, evidence and recommendations around strengthening community involvement in biomedical research and health delivery in sub-Saharan Africa.