Negotiating pharmaceutical uncertainty [electronic resource] : women's agency in a South African HIV prevention trial / Eirik Saethre and Jonathan Stadler
- Author
- Saethre, Eirik
- Published
- Nashville : Vanderbilt University Press, [2017].
- Physical Description
- viii, 245 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Additional Creators
- Stadler, Jonathan
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- License restrictions may limit access.
- Contents
- Infested natives and empowering biotechnologies -- Testing hope -- Recruiting meaning -- Libidinous sociality -- Experiencing efficacy -- The biotechnical salvation of a failed pharmaceutical.
- Summary
- "Contrasting the development of innovative biomedical technologies with the everyday lives of female South African clinical trial participants, Negotiating Pharmaceutical Uncertainty illustrates how the uncertainty of transnational medical research unintentionally fosters women's control over their health, sexuality, and sociality"--Provided by publisher.
- Subject(s)
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- ISBN
- 9780826521392 (cloth edition : alk. paper)
9780826521408 (pbk. edition : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references.
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