Panel 43: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (2): Africa as a laboratory: questioning implementation research and humanitarian innovation (Virginie Tallio)
In Africa, biomedical research and health services have been conducted jointly over the past century, shaping landscapes of healing and scientific experimentation. This conduct leads to the emergence of interstitial spaces where regimes of governance, techno-scientific practices and social reproduction are undergoing significant changes. We invite papers that explore theseshifting constellations and the emergence of new relationships between bodies, politics and science.
The Botswana national antiretroviral (ARV) program as a laboratory for
HIV/AIDS treatment in Africa: questioning the link between treatment and
research.
