Adverse events and placebo effects: African scientists, HIV, and ethics in the 'global health sciences'

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 843-870

  Crane, Johanna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON BOTHELL   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; ethics; HIV; postcolonial technoscience

Indexed keywords

RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR; ZIDOVUDINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; FEMALE; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RESEARCH ETHICS; UNITED STATES; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ETHICS, RESEARCH; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH (U.S.); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; THERAPEUTIC HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; UNITED STATES; WORLD HEALTH; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 78650009051     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312710371145     Document Type: Article

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