Committee Worlds Governing Medical Research Through Ethics in the Asia-Pacific

"The strength of an ethnographic sensibility has never been so apparent than in this eye-opening account of how a regional NGO created the conditions for an apparently global form of organization.Profound as a lesson in what not to take for granted, this is a brilliant response to an enquiry rarely posed: What is it to be a 'committee'?" -Marilyn Strathern, editor of Audit Cultures

"Douglas-Jones has given us an ethnographically rich account of the enduring and often subtle everyday efforts that facilitate the global flow of ethics committees as ethical guidelines and manuals go on to lead social lives in different regional, national and local settings where medical research takes place. Committee Worlds eminently weaves the best of anthropologies of policy in analytical conversation with Science and Technology Studies." -Ayo Wahlberg, University of Copenhagen