International science and bioethics collaborations: critical approaches to new knowledge relations
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Social Anthropology
Abstract
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Publications
Sleeboom-Faulkner ME
(2011)
Genetic testing, governance, and the family in the People's Republic of China.
in Social science & medicine (1982)
Sui S
(2010)
Choosing offspring: prenatal genetic testing for thalassaemia and the production of a 'saviour sibling' in China
in Culture, Health & Sexuality
Zhang X
(2011)
Tensions between medical professionals and patients in mainland China.
in Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Description | The ISBC research has produced a unique body of comparative data on the conduct and ethical governance of collaborative research in the biomedical sciences across Asia. Through a series of integrated subprojects on 1) international clinical trials 2) human embryonic stem cell research and 3) bioethics networking key insights have been gained into the operation of (1) biowealth (2) transnational knowledge flows (3) capacity building (4) bioethics and the governance of transnational res |
Exploitation Route | This project has lead to the establishment of extensive networks and personal and professional relations across Asia. We believe that the trust engendered in these long-term collaborations will enable benefit to accrue through diffusion and osmosis rather than direct impacts of an easily measurable kind. The quality and extent of these relationships has created collaborative environments in which ideas and their application have had, and will continue to have, significant impact potential cons |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy |
Description | Biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia |
Amount | £429,694 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/H033726/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2010 |
End | 08/2012 |
Description | Biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia |
Organisation | University of Edinburgh |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Biomedical and Health Experimentation in South Asia: critical perspectives on collaboration, governance and competition? is a research collaboration between the Universities of Edinburgh (UK), Durham (UK), Tufts (US), and Colombo (Sri Lanka), Social Science Baha (Nepal), and the Anusandhan Trust (India). The collaboration explores the relationships between experimental scientific enquiries in medicine and public health, the pharmaceutical industry, and developmental programmes, to assess their impact in South Asia. Using case studies of experimental projects in India, Nepal and Sri Lanka such as research collaborations that connect international researchers with local institutions, personnel and populations, the project will analyse the networks through ethical, socio-anthropological, political and economic frames. |
Start Year | 2010 |
Description | 'Orphan diseases' and research collaborations in global health innovation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Has increased investment in bioscientific capacity outside the First World done anything to change the landscape of drug research for neglected diseases? Join Dr. Monica Konrad, social anthropologist and Director of PLACEB-O, and speakers from the biosciences as we explore international collaboration and competition in times of intensified research planning. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.placebo.socanth.cam.ac.uk/content/misc/psfleaflet.pdf |
Description | Anthropology in transition : rethinking science policy studies from the bottom up |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the Centre of Science, Technology and Society, Tsinghua University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Aspects of collaborative malaria drug research in national and international settings |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Dr. Monica Konrad, senior researcher at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge gave this introductory talk on aspects of collaborative malaria drug research in national and international settings. Presentation given at the ISBC regional collaborative workshop II (RCWII) : malaria R&D financing, policy innovation and emerging drug resistance in Southeast Asia : perspectives from the local and global'. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
URL | http://www.isbc-project.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Online.pdf |
Description | Clinical stem cell research in China : internationalization and its discontents |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Presented at University of Oldenburg, Institute for Social Science Theory Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Clinical trials in China : challenges from internationalization and modernization |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Conference Panel at SIGENET China Week, Berlin, Humboldt Unbiversity / Charite, November 2 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
Description | Integrating bioethics and social science methodology : the empirical study of high-profile clinical SC research in China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Participants in your research or patient groups |
Results and Impact | Invited lecture: Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Peking Union Hospital, Center for Bioethics, Beijing, China Section not completed |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | International science and bioethics collaborations in Asia : end of award colloquium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The colloquium was organised by the ISBC team as the end of project dissemination event. It was attended by researchers and other stakeholders in the fields of STS, medical anthropology, sociology of health and illness, public health, development studies, bioethics, history of science and medicine. Members of the ISBC research team presented an overview of their work and the key themes and issues to have emerged from it. These presentations were followed by a series of complementary papers deli |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | Malaria R&D Financing, Policy Innovation and Emerging Drug Resistance in Southeast Asia: Perspectives from the Local and Global |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | A joint effort by the University of Cambridge, the UK Economic and Social Research Council, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation Bangkok Office and the National Centre for Genetic Engineering and Bioetechnology and the National Science and Technology Development Agency |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
Description | New forms of knowledge : qualitative research on clinical trials in Sri Lanka |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presented at inception workshop of biomedical and health experimentation in South Asia |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Rights to research : anthropology, academia and the new institutionalism : panel |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Panel convened by Monica Konrad, hosted at Newnham College Cambridge with the support of CRASSH |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
URL | http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/uploads/gallery/events/170/konradpaper.pdf |
Description | Scientist-initiated forms of ethical leadership and governance across countries and cultures |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Primary Audience | |
Results and Impact | Presented at SIGENET-health workshop, Beijing Genomics Institute, Shenzhen, China, March 7-11 2011 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity |
Description | Sri Lanka Medical Association 122nd annual scientific sessions pre-congress workshop on ethics of international collaborative research |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Scientific meeting (conference/symposium etc.) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | A one-day regional collaborative workshop for key regional stakeholders. The event provided an opportunity for participants from Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, and Bangladesh to share experiences of bioethics; clinical trials; ethics committees; international collaboration. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |