Ouvrier Ashley
Anthropologue, Groupe de recherche culture, santé et sociétés, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), unité mixte internationale (UMI) 233, maison méditerranéenne des sciences de l'homme (MMSH), 5, rue du Château de l'Horloge, 13094 Aix-en-Provence Cedex, France.
Med Sci (Paris). 2013 Jan;29(1):89-93. doi: 10.1051/medsci/2013291018. Epub 2013 Jan 25.
Medical research is an essential tool of biomedicine that raises many social and ethical questions especially in resource-poor countries where the number of clinical trials has increased significantly over the past two decades. This article presents the way anthropology of medical research critically examines medical research in non-western countries without questioning its strategic importance for advances in scientific knowledge and in public health improvement. This article draws on observations conducted in Senegal in 2007 during a vaccine trial against meningitis and discusses, more broadly, medical research in non western-countries related to: the presence and management of medical research sites, the impact of medical research benefits on its representations and the questions raised by blood-stealing rumours regarding medical research practice itself.
医学研究是生物医学的一项重要工具，它引发了许多社会和伦理问题，尤其是在资源匮乏的国家，在过去二十年里，这些国家的临床试验数量显著增加。本文介绍了医学研究人类学批判性审视非西方国家医学研究的方式，同时并不质疑其对科学知识进步和公共卫生改善的战略重要性。本文借鉴了2007年在塞内加尔进行的一项脑膜炎疫苗试验期间的观察结果，并更广泛地讨论了非西方国家的医学研究，涉及医学研究地点的存在与管理、医学研究益处对其形象的影响，以及关于医学研究实践本身的采血谣言所引发的问题。
