When experiments travel clinical trials and the global search for human subjects
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index Experimental fields -- - Ethical variability -- - Arts of drug development -- - The global clinical trial -- - Pharmaceuticals and the right to health -- - The future of global medicine The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously unattainable medical resources, the outsourcing and offshoring of trials also create new problems. In this groundbreaking book, anthropologist Adriana Petryna takes us deep into the clinical trials i |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (x, 258 pages) |
| ISBN: | 0691126577 1282820974 1400830826 9780691126579 9781282820975 9781400830824 |