The market for healers and the ethics of biomedicine in Burkina Faso. (360G-Wellcome-086300_Z_08_Z)

£108,070

There has been considerable normative debate about the applicability of international bioethical thinking to medical practice and research in developing countries. Little is known about how this plays out empirically, particularly about the interaction between indigenous and international bioethical thinking. It is also acknowledged that international writing on bioethics has tended to be dominated by Anglophone values and models of research and medical practice, whose universality is contested. This empirical study of the ethics of medical practice in Burkina Faso will: describe how practitioners deal with the potentially competing claims of local and international ethical expectations; examine the influence of a francophone context and its different traditions of ethical analysis. WP1 A literature review covering international bioethics, the sociology of the professions and the anthropological study of indigenous healers; archival work on the institutional foundations of European medicine in Burkina Faso. WP2 The role of international organizations and NGOs in shaping the contemporary organisation of health services in Burkina Faso, particularly the ethical expectations embedded within their interaction with the state. The approach of regulators. WP3 The bioethics of indigenous practice and the standards adopted by local healers in interaction with consumers. WP4 The European-style medical practitioners and the ethical standards that they adopt in interactions with their consumers and their regulators. WPS PhD thesis and journal articles in French and English, together with an accessible web summary of the main findings. WP1 & WP5 will be mainly completed in Nottingham; WP2-4 will be completed in Burkina Faso.

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Grant Details

Amount Awarded 108070
Applicant Surname Sawadogo
Approval Committee Biomedical Ethics Funding Committee
Award Date 2008-06-05T00:00:00+00:00
Financial Year 2007/08
Grant Programme: Title PhD Studentship in H&SS
Internal ID 086300/Z/08/Z
Lead Applicant Mr Natewinde Sawadogo
Partnership Value 108070
Planned Dates: End Date 2011-11-30T00:00:00+00:00
Planned Dates: Start Date 2008-11-01T00:00:00+00:00
Recipient Org: Country United Kingdom
Region East Midlands
Sponsor(s) Prof Robert Dingwall