The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients / Sonia Shah.
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TextPublication details: New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006. Description: xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 1565849124; 9781565849129Subject(s): Clinical trials -- ethics | Drug approval | Drug industry -- ethics | HIV infections -- drug therapy | Health services accessibility | Informed consent | Internationality | Research subjects | Developing countries | South Africa | India | United StatesDDC classification: 362.17/82 NLM classification: WB 60 2006SH| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-232) and index.
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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