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Paul Wenzel Geissler

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Email p.w.geissler@sai.uio.no
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Visiting address Eilert Sundts hus blokk A Moltke Moes vei 31 0851 OSLO
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About

Before Geissler studied Social Anthropology at the universities of Copenhagen and Cambridge, he studied Zoology in Copenhagen and Hamburg and worked for a while as a medical parasitologist. He conducted fieldwork for both disciplines in Kenya and his work is focused on Africa, especially its Eastern parts. Since he turned to Anthropology, Geissler has expanded his field of research from issues of medicine and the body to research topics such as kinship and generation, social change, history and memory. Geissler has been involved in an extensive fieldwork in the western part of Kenya since 1994 and has written, together with Ruth Prince, a monograph about it ('The Land is Dying', Oxfordf: Berghahn). During recent years, Geissler has developed his new research theme, the history and ethnography of medical research and bioscientific intervention in different parts of Africa in an attempt to bring the anthropology of Africa, postcolonial history and social studies of science together with 'medical' anthropology. 

Research interests

Thematic: Science, medicine, medical research, kinship, generation, social change, Political Economy, economy, memory, history.
Regional: Africa, Kenya 

Tags: Theory of science, Medical Anthropology, Kinship, Social change, Economic anthropology, Historical anthropology, Africa, Kenya

Publications

  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2013). Public secrets in public health: knowing not to know while making scientific knowledge. American Ethnologist.  ISSN 0094-0496.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Chantler, Tracey; Otewa, Faith; Onyango, Peter; Okoth, Ben; Odhiambo, Frank & Parker, Michael (2013). Ethical Challenges that Arise at the Community Interface of Health Research: Village Reporters'Experiences in Western Kenya. Developing World Bioethics.  ISSN 1471-8731.  13(1), s 30- 38
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kamuya, Dorcas M. & March, Vicki (2013). Engaging Communities to Strenghten Research Ethics in Low-Income Settings: Selection and Perceptions of Members of a Network of Representatives in Coastal Kenya. Developing World Bioethics.  ISSN 1471-8731.  13(1), s 10- 21
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kamuya, Dorcas M.; Theobald, Sally J.; Munywoki, Patrick K.; Koech, Dororhy & Molyneux, Sassy C. (2013). Evolving Friendships and Shifting Ethical Dilemmas: Fieldworkers' Experiences in a Short Term Community Based Study in Kenya. Developing World Bioethics.  ISSN 1471-8731.  13(1), s 1- 9
  • Madiega, Philister Adhiambo; Jones, Gemma; Prince, Ruth Jane & Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2013). "She's My Sister-In-Law, My Visitor, My Friend" Challenges of Staff Identity in Home Follow-Up in an HIV Trial in Western Kenya. Developing World Bioethics.  ISSN 1471-8731.  13(1), s 21- 29 . doi: 10.1111/dewb.12019
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2012). ‘Transport - to where?’ – Reflections on the problem of value and time a propos an awkward practice in medical research, In Paul Wenzel Geissler & Ann H Kelly (ed.),  The Value of Transnational Medical Research: Labour, Participation and Care.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-415-69810-8.  kapitel.  s 73 - 93
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2012). ‘We are not paid – they just give us’: Liberalisation and the longing for biopolitical discipline around an African HIV prevention trial., In Paul Wenzel Geissler; Richard Rottenburg & Julia Zenker (ed.),  Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa.  Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge.  ISBN 9783837620283.  Kapitel.  s 197 - 229
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Kelly, Ann H (2012). Investigating the Ethics and Economics of Medical Experimentation, In Paul Wenzel Geissler & Ann H Kelly (ed.),  The Value of Transnational Medical Research: Labour, Participation and Care.  Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-415-69810-8.  Kapittel 1.  s 1 - 12
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Kelly, Ann; Imoukhuede, Babatunde & Pool, Robert (2012). Substantial Transactions and an Ethics of Kinship in Recent Collaborative Malaria Vaccine Trials in The Gambia, In Monica Konrad (ed.),  COLLABORATORS COLLABORATING. Counterparts in Anthropological Knowledge and International Research Relations.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-0-85745-480-5.  Chapter 3.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Zenker, Julia & Rottenburg, Richard (2012). 21st century African biopolitics: fuzzy fringes, cracks and undersides, neglected backwaters, and returning politics, In Paul Wenzel Geissler; Richard Rottenburg & Julia Zenker (ed.),  Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa.  Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge.  ISBN 9783837620283.  forord.  s 7 - 23
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2011). Introduction: Studying trial communities: anthropological and historical inquiries into ethos, politics and economy of medical research in Africa, In Paul Wenzel Geissler & Catherine Molyneux (ed.),  EVIDENCE, ETHOS AND EXPERIMENT: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-0-85745-092-0.  Introduksjon.  s 1 - 29
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2011). Parasite Lost. Remembering Modern Times with Kenyan Government Medical Scientists, In Paul Wenzel Geissler & Catherine Molyneux (ed.),  EVIDENCE, ETHOS AND EXPERIMENT: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa.  Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-0-85745-092-0.  Kapittel 12.  s 297 - 333
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Kelly, Ann H (2011). Introduction: The value of transnational medical research. Journal of Cultural Economy.  ISSN 1753-0350.  4(1), s 4- 10 . doi: 10.1080/17530350.2011.535329
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Malowany, Maureen & Lwoba, Alfred (2011). “Go Back to the Land!” Negotiating Space, Framing Governmentality in Lambwe Valley, Kenya 1954–75". Canadian Journal of African Studies.  ISSN 0008-3968.  45(3), s 440- 479
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2010). "Transport-to where?"-Reflection on the problem of value and time a propos an awkward practice in medical research.. Journal of Cultural Economy.  ISSN 1753-0350.  4(1)
  • Raabe, Vanessa N.; Mutyaba, I; Roddy, Paul; Lutwama, Julius J.; Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Borchert, Matthias (2010). Infection control during filoviral hemorrhagic fever outbreaks: preferences of community members and health workers in Masindi, Uganda. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.  ISSN 0035-9203.  104(1), s 48- 50 . doi: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.07.011
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Kelly, Ann (ed.) (2012). The value of transnational medical research. Routledge.  ISBN 9780415698108.  129 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Kelly, Ann H (ed.) (2012). The Value of Transnational Medical Research: Labour, Participation and Care. Routledge.  ISBN 978-0-415-69810-8.  139 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel; Rottenburg, Richard & Zenker, Julia (ed.) (2012). Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa. Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge.  ISBN 9783837620283.  291 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Molyneux, Catherine (ed.) (2011). EVIDENCE, ETHOS AND EXPERIMENT: The Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa. Berghahn Books.  ISBN 978-0-85745-092-0.  452 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Sassy, Molyneux (ed.) (2011). Evidence, Ethos and Experiment: the Anthropology and History of Medical Research in Africa.. Berghahn Books.  ISBN 9780857450920.  500 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel & Becker, Felicitas (ed.) (2009). Religion and AIDS in Africa.. Brill Academic Publishers.  ISBN 9789004164000.  404 s.
  • Geissler, Paul Wenzel (2012). Comment on Claire Wendland ‘Animating Biomedicine’s Moral Order’.. Current Anthropology.  ISSN 0011-3204.
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