Graboyes, Melissa (Author)
Ohio University Press
Physical Details: 307 pages
Language: English
"Graboyes's book reads like a mystery, elegantly weaving history, science, bioethics and public health into a compelling story. A profoundly important contribution to the challenges of conducting medical research in the developing world." --Michael A. Grodin, M.D., professor of bioethics and human Rights, Boston University School of Public HealthThe Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian. She breathes life into the fascinating histories of research on human subjects, elucidating the hopes of the interventionists and the experiences of the putative beneficiaries. Historical case studies highlight failed attempts to eliminate tropical diseases, while modern examples delve into ongoing malaria and HIV/AIDS research. Collectively, these show how East Africans have perceived research differently than researchers do and that the active participation of subjects led to the creation of a hybrid ethical form. By writing an ethnography of the past and a history of the present, Graboyes casts medical experimentation in a new light, and makes the resounding case that we must readjust our dominant ideas of consent, participation, and exploitation. With global implications, this lively book is as relevant for scholars as it is for anyone invested in the place of medicine in society.
...MoreReview Claire Wendland (2017) Review of "The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014". Journal of Interdisciplinary History (pp. 438-439).
Review Rhiannon Stephens (2016) Review of "The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014". International Journal of African Historical Studies (pp. 463-464).
Review Sarah B. Rodriguez (2016) Review of "The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014". Social History of Medicine (pp. 244-245).
Review Anna Greenwood (2017) Review of "The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 489-490).
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