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Theorising the ‘human subject’ in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka. (2011)
Journal Article
Sariola, S., & Simpson, B. (2011). Theorising the ‘human subject’ in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka. Social Science & Medicine, 73(4), 515-521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2010.11.024

The global spread of clinical trials activity is accompanied by a parallel growth in research governance and human subject protection. In this paper we analyse how dominant ideas of the ‘human subject’ in clinical trials are played out in countries t... Read More about Theorising the ‘human subject’ in biomedical research: International clinical trials and bioethics discourses in contemporary Sri Lanka..

Blood Rhetorics: Donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, B. (2011). Blood Rhetorics: Donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka. Ethnos, 76(2), 254-275. https://doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2010.546868

In this article, I focus on an aspect of voluntary blood donation that has received relatively little attention, namely the spaces – public, moral and political – that connnect individual donors with the recipients of blood. More specifically I focus... Read More about Blood Rhetorics: Donor campaigns and their publics in contemporary Sri Lanka.