The professional guinea pig: Big Pharma and the risky world of human subjects

Introduction : a guinea pig's wage: risk, body commodification, and the ethics of pharmaceutical research in America -- Guinea-pigging : the in/formal economy of phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia -- Market recruitment, identity, and resistance among professional guinea pigs -- Local knowl...

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1. Verfasser: Abadie, Roberto (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham [NC] Duke University Press 2010
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Zusammenfassung:Introduction : a guinea pig's wage: risk, body commodification, and the ethics of pharmaceutical research in America -- Guinea-pigging : the in/formal economy of phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia -- Market recruitment, identity, and resistance among professional guinea pigs -- Local knowledge and risk management among professional guinea pigs -- Big Pharma and HIV clinical trials: a case study -- Strategies of survival : HIV clinical trials and the fight for their lives -- From prisoners to professionals : a brief history of the clinical-trial enterprise -- Ethics and the exploitation of the poor in clinical trials research -- Conclusion : living in/off the mild torture economy as trial subjects -- Epilogue : following up : Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam one last time
Beschreibung:Description based on print version record. - Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 184 Seiten)
ISBN:9780822393245
0822393247

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