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Clinical Field Research in a Post‐conflict Setting
Author(s) -
Boggero Marco
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
global policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.602
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1758-5899
pISSN - 1758-5880
DOI - 10.1111/j.1758-5899.2010.00027.x
Subject(s) - field (mathematics) , political science , psychology , mathematics , pure mathematics
science inputs have contributed much to the ongoing global fight against malaria 2 and should continue to do so. In this sense, this article describes some of the ethical challenges of clinical research as I faced them in Liberia, revisits the fundamental variance between the ‘two cultures’, that is, of the sciences and the humanities, and suggests the replicability of such research on the condition that it rests on strong interdisciplinary foundations. In 2003, 14 years of civil war in Liberia left the country devastated and around half a million displaced persons out of a population of 3.2 million. The weakened health sector’s infrastructure and personnel face a maternal mortality rate among the highest in the world at 994 per 100,000