The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients /

The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shah, Sonia.
Imprint:	New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.
Description:	xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Pharmaceutical policy -- Developing countries. Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- Developing countries. Drugs -- Prescribing -- Developing countries. Drug utilization -- Developing countries. Medical ethics. Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics. Developing Countries. Drug Approval. Drug Industry -- ethics. Drug utilization. Drugs -- Prescribing. Medical ethics. Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices. Pharmaceutical policy. Developing countries.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8164320

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ISBN:	1565849124 9781565849129
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-232) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Clinical trials go global
2. The placebo control
3. Growing the pharma monolith
4. Uncaging the guinea pig
5. HIV and the second-rate solution
6. South Africa : drug trials and AIDS denialism
7. Outsourcing to India : the one billion body politic
8. Calibrating ethical codes
9. The emperor has no clothes : the vagaries of informed consent
10. Tipping the scales.