Experimenting with the consumer : the mass testing of risky products on the American public /

From the Publisher: Experimenting With The Consumer exposes the hazards of the mass-market experimentation in which every American consumer and worker is unwittingly tapped for product risk data by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators. Vioxx, Heparin, Avandia, Paxil, fen-phen, estrogens, silico...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shapo, Marshall S., 1936-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2009.
Colección:Non-Series.
Temas:
Products liability > United States.
Technological innovations > Law and legislation > United States.
Human experimentation in medicine > Law and legislation > United States.
Responsabilité du fait des produits > États-Unis.
Human experimentation in medicine > Law and legislation
Products liability
Technological innovations > Law and legislation
Neue Technologie
Menschenversuch
Medizin
Produzentenhaftung
Recht
United States
USA
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1: Experimentation: a survey at trench level
  • 2: HIV/AIDS drugs: speeding up science under political pressure
  • 3: Breast implants: a parable of law's response to improvements on nature
  • 4: Treating thyself with drugs-for men only: the saga of Viagra
  • 5: Estrogens: a gathering of data, a gathering storm
  • 6: Estrogens-the storm breaks: a struggle of medicine, law, and politics
  • 7: Experiments at the billionth level: nanotechnology
  • Conclusion
  • Postscript
  • Notes
  • Index.

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