'Like sugar and honey': The embedded ethics of a larval control project in The Gambia

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1912-1919

  Kelly, Ann H ^a   Ameh, David ^b   Majambere, Silas ^d,e   Lindsay, Steve ^a,c   Pinder, Margaret ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL LABORATORIES   (Gambia)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^e LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Africa; Embedding; Malaria; Research ethics; Social technology studies; The Gambia

Indexed keywords

INSECTICIDE;

COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKER; DISEASE CONTROL; ETHICS; INSECTICIDE; LOCAL PARTICIPATION; MALARIA;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; ETHNOGRAPHY; GAMBIA; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INSECT CONTROL; MALARIA; MEDICAL ETHICS; NURSE; RESEARCH ETHICS; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; VECTOR CONTROL;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH AIDES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GAMBIA; HUMANS; INTERPROFESSIONAL RELATIONS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALARIA; MOTHERS; NURSES; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; SOCIOLOGY, MEDICAL;

GAMBIA;

EID: 77952674477     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.02.012     Document Type: Article

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