Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
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.
JSTOR
MIL
22573/ctt106q5
282097
When experiments travel.
9780691126562
Clinical trials-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs-- Design.
Drugs-- Testing-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Patients-- Legal status, laws, etc.
Clinical Trials as Topic.
Drug Design.
Human Experimentation-- ethics.
Internationality.
Patient Selection.
Clinical trials-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs-- Design.
Drugs-- Testing-- Moral and ethical aspects.
Ethik
Ethik.
Globalisierung
Globalisierung.
Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects.