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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Abadie, Roberto
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham [NC] : Duke University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Description
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (197 pages).
ISBN:9780822393245

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