Moral and scientific boundaries: research ethics on the

(Myanmar) is at the forefront of the global battle against malaria, and is an important site for research. The primary reason for this is the fact that it is on the front line in the battle against the devel-opment and spread of resistance to anti-malarial drugs. That is, it is one of the primary sites of the arms race between the development of new drugs for the treat-ment of malaria and the evolution of antimalarial resistance in parasites.1 The antimalarial resistance developing here is likely to spread elsewhere. So, much is at stake. Globally, up to a million children each year die from malaria and more tha