Article ID: CBB094400545

Toxic remains: Infrastructural failure in a Ugandan molecular biology lab (October 2021)

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This article complicates romances of infrastructural improvisation by describing infrastructural failures that expose researchers to hazardous chemicals in a Ugandan molecular biology lab. To meet project deadlines, to make careers and to participate in transnational collaborative projects, Ugandan biologists have to stand in for decaying or absent infrastructures with their bodies. Ugandan biologists hide such sacrifices from their international scientific partners and direct the blame elsewhere. An unclear culpability results precisely from the ways in which power works and is distributed across transnational scientific infrastructures.

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Authors & Contributors
Centellas, Kate M.
Feierman, Steven
Fifield, Steve
Heimer, Carol A.
Karp, Alexander
Koch, Lene
Journals
Science, Technology, and Human Values
Social Studies of Science
Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Engineering Studies
Publishers
University of Pennsylvania
Harvard University Press
Ohio University Press
Springer
University of Chicago Press
Concepts
Science and technology studies (STS)
Research
Laboratories
Postcolonialism
Medicine
Cancer; tumors
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
20th century, late
Places
Uganda
Africa
United States
Great Britain
Mexico
Senegal
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