Tag: developing countries
Blog Posts (7)
January 29, 2009
Ghana Gets a Bioethics Commission
How do you know that bioethics has made it big time in a country, in my humble opinion? Their government creates a bioethics commission, of course!…
August 14, 2008
Money! Turns Out Its Bad for You...
Peter Singer opines in today’s Accra Daily Mail, one of Ghana’s capital city newspapers, about the evils of money. Singer cites a behavioral study that concludes that even the slightest suggestions of money presented to a group of individuals (e.g.…
April 29, 2008
Can you buy changes in health behaviors?
By Stuart Rennie
And the girl behind the counter has a tattooed tear
One for every year he’s away she said
Such a crumbling beauty,
Ach there’s nothing wrong with her
That a hundred dollars won’t fix
Those are lyrics from Tom Waits’ song ’9th and Hennepin.’ They slipped involuntarily into my consciousness when I read about a World Bank study that is being planned in Tanzania.…
April 7, 2008
The global scramble for ready-to-consent populations
By Stuart Rennie
Last year, Jill Fisher at Arizona State University wrote a very interesting article on the concept of ‘ready-to-recruit’ populations for biomedical research for the journal Qualitative Inquiry (subscription required, goddammit).…
March 9, 2008
Is being infected with malaria worth $2000?
If it is, and you live in the Seattle area, there was some very exciting news last week. The Seattle Biomedical Research Institute would like to trade that two grand for the time and inconvenience of having malaria-carrying mosquitos held up to your arm until they bite you.…
February 24, 2008
Criminalizing the brain drain
By Stuart Rennie
There are many numbers around to express the inequalities in health care between developed and developing nations. In Malawi, there is one physician for about 50,000 persons; compare with Great Britain, where it is considered shocking when there are districts with only one doctor per 3500.…
October 29, 2007
Bringing ethics to the Grand Challenges in Global Health
By Stuart Rennie
Social scientists and people working in ethics have been gradually infiltrating international health research over the last decade.…