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

  • Shah, Sonia.
Date:
2006
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About this work

Publication/Creation

New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.

Physical description

xiii, 242 pages ; 22 cm

Contributors

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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-232) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    QV771 2006S52b
    		Open shelves

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  • 1565849124
  • 9781565849129