The experiment begins : medical research past and present -- East African perceptions of medical research -- First encounters, first impressions -- Ethical recruitment and gathering human subjects -- Finding an ethical balance -- Coming to an ethical end -- The experiment ends : modern medical research and historical residue
Summary
The Experiment Must Continue is a beautifully articulated ethnographic history of medical experimentation in East Africa from 1940 through 2014. In it, Melissa Graboyes combines her training in public health and in history to treat her subject with the dual sensitivities of a medical ethicist and a fine historian