When Experiments Travel : Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects /

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The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Petryna, Adriana, 1966- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Offshoring.
Ethik.
Globalisierung.
Klinisches Experiment.
Offshoring
Ethik
Globalisierung
Klinisches Experiment
Patients > Legal status, laws, etc.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs > Testing > Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs > Design.
Clinical trials > Moral and ethical aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
MEDICAL > Laboratory Medicine.
Selection de patients.
Experimentation humaine en medecine > Aspect moral.
Medicaments > Conception.
Medicaments > Essais cliniques > Aspect moral.
Études cliniques > Aspect moral.
Patient Selection
Internationality
Human Experimentation > ethics
Drug Design
Clinical Trials as Topic
Entwicklungsländer.
Entwicklungsländer
Electronic resource.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously unattainable medical resources, the outsourcing and offshoring of trials also create new problems. In this groundbreaking book, anthropologist Adriana Petryna takes us deep into the clinical trials i.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages).
ISBN:9781400830824

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