The professional guinea pig big pharma and the risky world of human subjects
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Durham :
Duke University Press
2010
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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.
