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Well me, personally, I am extremely surprised to see Europeans continuing to act as though medical ethics + research subject protections exist everywhere except for the African continent. A truly unprecedented phenomenon, ESPECIALLY in biomedical science! https://twitter.com/rimsarah/status/1245680422614446081

https://twitter.com/rimsarah/status/1245680422614446081

On this topic (spec. about British colonization), @hel4t’s “Africa As A Living Laboratory: Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950” is very very good. A review:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/5280/reviews/6509/bigon-tilley-africa-living-laboratory-empire-development-and-problem

I also like the paper “Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory” by @LundyBraun & Evelynn Hammonds which gets into colonial logic of Africans as genetically distinct “populations” (which is taken up as biological foundation for “race”)

PDF:
https://drum.lib.umd.edu/bitstream/handle/1903/24566/Race,_populations,_and_genomics_Africa_as_laboratory.pdf;jsessionid=ADA3B25E5B9F278AD92AC97DA1BEF7E7?sequence=1

Also this book about post-WWII French colonial health services + experimental trials for a drug that would protect against sleeping sickness, and was administered on Africans without their consent.

A review

https://twitter.com/aidnography/status/1245805982418165760?s=21 https://twitter.com/aidnography/status/1245805982418165760

https://twitter.com/aidnography/status/1245805982418165760?s=21

Also, and I can’t stress this enough.

DO NOT SLEEP ON THE BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION.

Philanthrocapitalism functions basically unchecked and there are some questionable discourses being driven by people with outsized political & financial influence https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/6/10/8760199/gates-foundation-criticism

The media loves the Gates Foundation. These experts are more skeptical.

The organization is now one of the single biggest funders of global health, with little oversight or accountability.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/6/10/8760199/gates-foundation-criticism

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