What is the value of medical research? With contributions from anthropologists, sociologists and activists, this approach brings into focus the forms of value -- social, epistemic, and economic -- that are involved in medical research practices and how these values intersect with everyday living. Though their work covers wide empirical ground --from HIV trials in Kenya and drug donation programs in Tanzania to industry-academic collaborations in the British National Health Service -- the authors share a commitment to understanding the practices of medical research as embedded in both local...