When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects [Kindle Edition]
Author: Adriana Petryna | Language: English | ISBN: B00C5MX3DC | Format: PDF, EPUB
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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 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 industry as it brings together players separated by vast economic and cultural differences. Moving between corporate and scientific offices in the United States and research and public health sites in Poland and Brazil, When Experiments Travel documents the complex ways that commercial medical science, with all its benefits and risks, is being integrated into local health systems and emerging drug markets.
Providing a unique perspective on globalized clinical trials, When Experiments Travel raises central questions: Are such trials exploitative or are they social goods? How are experiments controlled and how is drug safety ensured? And do these experiments help or harm public health in the countries where they are conducted? Empirically rich and theoretically innovative, the book shows that neither the language of coercion nor that of rational choice fully captures the range of situations and value systems at work in medical experiments today. When Experiments Travel challenges conventional understandings of the ethics and politics of transnational science and changes the way we think about global medicine and the new infrastructures of our lives.
Direct download links available for When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects- File Size: 1139 KB
- Print Length: 263 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0691126577
- Publisher: Princeton University Press; 1 edition (April 27, 2009)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00C5MX3DC
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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Interesting read about the pharm industry, and the clinical trials around the globe. Easy to read. provides perspective about equity in health care arond the globe.By Nancy P. Goldschmidt
I needed it for a research paper, and it has great information relevant to a lack of patient protection in clinical trials.By doctorG
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