The Professional Guinea Pig : Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects /

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Ethnography of the lives of a new professional drug testing class, analyzing the underground economy of human research subjects (guinea pigs) who test the safety of new drugs for money (illegal immigrants, homeless people, ex-convicts, anarchists, and oth.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Abadie, Roberto
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Human experimentation in medicine.
Drugs > Testing.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
MEDICAL > Pharmacy.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
MEDICAL > Nursing > Pharmacology.
MEDICAL > Drug Guides.
Experimentation humaine en medecine > États-Unis.
Medicaments > États-Unis > Essais cliniques.
Medicaments > Essais cliniques.
Clinical Trials as Topic
Research Subjects
Human Experimentation > ethics
Human experimentation in medicine > United States.
Drugs > United States > Testing.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a guinea pig's wage: risk, body commodification, and the ethics of pharmaceutical research in America
  • Guinea-pigging : the in/formal economy of phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia
  • Market recruitment, identity, and resistance among professional guinea pigs
  • Local knowledge and risk management among professional guinea pigs
  • Big Pharma and HIV clinical trials: a case study
  • Strategies of survival : HIV clinical trials and the fight for their lives
  • From prisoners to professionals : a brief history of the clinical-trial enterprise
  • Ethics and the exploitation of the poor in clinical trials research
  • Conclusion : living in/off the mild torture economy as trial subjects
  • Epilogue : following up : Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam one last time.

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