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The Experiment Must Continue: Medical Research and Ethics in East Africa, 1940-2014 by Melissa Graboyes Athens, OH : Ohio University Press , 2015. Pp. 350. £23·99 (pbk).
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There has been a continuing and growing interest in critically reflecting on historical and contemporary perspectives of medical research practices and ethical processes. In The Experiment Must Continue, Melissa Graboyes contributes to this literature with lessons of caution. Guided by her own background in public health and history, and drawing on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in Tanzania, Graboyes discusses key aspects of medical research and the challenges of everyday ethics in the field. Detailing medical research in East Africa from 1940 to 2014, the book 'speaks to the potential misuse of people, historically and in the present, and asks hard questions about why we do medical research, at what cost, who benefits, and whether those benefits are worth the risks we ask some people to bear' (p. xxi).
A range of medical research is discussed, including lymphatic filariasis elimination attempts, a tuberculosis drug trial, a male circumcision trial and...