Adverse Events : Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals /

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Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific resultsImagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a r...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fisher, Jill A. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]
Colección:Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice ; 9
Temas:
Drugs > Testing > Social aspects > United States.
Equality > Health aspects > United States.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Racism in medicine > United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General.
United States.
clinic.
clinical trial culture.
clinical trials.
clinics.
confinement.
consumption.
decision making.
demographics.
drug development.
economic interests.
economic motivations.
economic need.
economic risk.
epistemology.
health-promoting behavior.
healthy volunteers.
identity.
imbricated stigma.
inclusion-exclusion criteria.
informed consent.
methods.
model organism.
opportunism.
participation.
pharmaceutical industry.
phase I clinical trials.
phase I industry.
phase I trials.
phase I.
profit.
public health.
qualifying.
race.
region.
reputation.
research participation.
research staff.
risk.
screen failure.
serial participation.
social inequalities.
social inequality.
social network.
social world.
study compensation.
validity.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Tables and Figures
  • Introduction: "Your Health Is Your Wealth"
  • 1. Entering the Clinic
  • 2. "Doing the Lab Rat Thing"
  • 3. A Tale of Three Cultures
  • 4. The Commercialization of Phase I Trials
  • 5. A Laboratory for Human Animals
  • 6. The Dark Side of the Model
  • 7. Consenting to Adverse Events
  • 8. Constructing Risk Knowledge
  • 9. Speculating on Health
  • Conclusion: The Social Inequality of Adverse Events
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Author

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