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The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients
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The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients / Sonia Shah.
ISBN
1565849124
9781565849129
Published
New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.
Physical Description
xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 09, 2007
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-232) and index.
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.
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