WilliamsMemo11

DRAFT 1 of Memo 11 (the final draft will be posted above this one.) Williams Memo 11 Three Annotations **Literature 2** Turnbull, D. 1989. The Push for a Malaria Vaccine. //Social Studies of Science// 19, no. 2: 283. Annotation 2 Annotation 3
 * 1) What three quotes capture the critical import of the text?
 * "Why is there such a push to develop a vaccine? Will it actually help malaria sufferers in the endemic regions? Are there any other approaches to the treatment and elimination of malaria? These sorts of questions should always be raised about any scientific or technological development, but they are particularly important when (the development is one proposed by the ‘First World’ for the benefit of the Third World. Such technological ‘advances’, like the ‘green revolution’,’ have often worked to the disadvantage of the poor, or have ignored local social and economic variables, as is evidenced by the failure of DDT to eradicate malaria. and the intransigence of schisiosoimasis (Turnbull 285)."**
 * "Although malaria can thus be viewed as a natural entity uniquely specifiable as the consequence of parasitic invasion, it can also be visualized as a complex of interactions, providing the conditions for constituting the disease as a specific natural entity through a social process of selective definition of malaria and response (Turnbull 286)."**
 * "Technologically sophisticated solutions are incompatible with local solutions which reflect contingent circumstances and individual conditions, precisely because their efficacy depends on a transcendence of the local. Biomedical research scientists working in laboratories, though individually altruistic, have acquired through their disciplinary training and experience a set of skills and practices (like gene-splicing and monoclonal antibodies) which enable them to produce candidate vaccines. Such entities are capable of being the stuff of commercial enterprise and international diplomacy, whereas site-specific simple solutions are not. (Turnbull 296)"**
 * 1) What is the main argument of the text?
 * 2) ** That the malaria vaccine is a technological fix that benefits the First World purse, when a more local solution is required that would actually eliminate malaria successfully. **
 * 3) Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported.
 * 4) ** By comparison to previous experience (green revolution, DDT) **
 * 5) ** By analysis of local conditions of current issue (the local genetic specificity of malaria, and the social factors that influences its spread) **
 * 6) Describe the main literatures that the text draws on and contributes to.
 * 7) ** SSK **
 * 8) ** Genetics, and Biology of Malaria **
 * 9) ** Epidemiology **
 * 10) Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing.
 * 11) ** Challenges the idea of MTT ever being successful from 1st World to 3rd World, unless there is an evaluation of local conditions **
 * 12) List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing
 * 13) ** It supports my argument that governments in developing countries must develop their own infrastructure for public health and biomedical research in order to create the best treatment regimes for local communicable and other diseases. Since this is not possible with their current resources, perhaps entrepreneurial NGOs can be useful. **
 * 1) ** What three quotes capture the critical import of the text? **
 * 2) ** What is the main argument of the text? **
 * 3) ** Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported. **
 * 4) ** Describe the main literatures that the text draws on and contributes to. **
 * 5) ** Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing. **
 * 6) ** List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing **
 * 1) ** What three quotes capture the critical import of the text? **
 * 2) ** What is the main argument of the text? **
 * 3) ** Describe at least three ways that the main argument is supported. **
 * 4) ** Describe the main literatures that the text draws on and contributes to. **
 * 5) ** Explain how the argument and evidence in the text supports, challenges or otherwise relates to the argument or narrative that you imagine developing. **
 * 6) ** List of at least three details or examples from the text that you can use to support the argument or narrative that you are developing **