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) [Book Review]
Citation
Pearson, G. (2017) 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) [Book Review]. The Journal of Modern African Studies, 55(1), pp. 170-171.
Abstract
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.