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Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty : Women's Agency in a South African HIV Prevention Trial by Jonathan Stadler and Eirik Saethre (2017, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVanderbilt University Press
ISBN-100826521401
ISBN-139780826521408
eBay Product ID (ePID)222076683
Product Key Features
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNegotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty : Women's Agency in a South African Hiv Prevention Trial
Publication Year2017
SubjectBiotechnology, Clinical Medicine, Ethics, Aids & Hiv, Preventive Medicine, Women's Studies, Disease & Health Issues
TypeTextbook
AuthorJonathan Stadler, Eirik Saethre
Subject AreaSocial Science, Science, Medical
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight12.3 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2016-015311
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"Most scholarship focuses more on power relations within clinical trials, but these authors have gone beyond that to show how women--at least in this particular trial, with this particular pharmaceutical--create their own definition of success and generate their own meanings and engagements." -- Susan Craddock , coeditor of Influenza and Public Health: Learning from Past Pandemics
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal306.70820968
SynopsisTelling the story of a clinical trial testing an innovative gel designed to prevent women from contracting HIV, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty provides new insight into the complex and contradictory relationship between medical researchers and their subjects. Although clinical trials attempt to control and monitor participants' bodies, Saethre and Stadler argue that the inherent uncertainty of medical testing can create unanticipated opportunities for women to exercise control over their health, sexuality, and social relationships. Combining a critical analysis of the social production of biomedical knowledge and technologies with a detailed ethnography of the lives of female South African trial participants, this book brings to light issues of economic exclusion, racial disparity, and spiritual insecurity in Johannesburg's townships. Built on a series of tales ranging from strategy sessions at the National Institutes of Health to witchcraft accusations against the trial, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty illuminates the everyday social lives of clinical trials. As embedded anthropologists, Saethre and Stadler provide a unique and nuanced perspective of the reality of a clinical trial that is often hidden from view.
LC Classification NumberHQ29S25 2017
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