When experiments travel : clinical trials and the global search for human subjects

When experiments travel : clinical trials and the global search for human subjects /

"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 par...

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Main Author: Petryna, Adriana, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Clinical trials > Moral and ethical aspects.
Drugs > Testing > Moral and ethical aspects.
Patients > Legal status, laws, etc.
Drugs > Design.
Human experimentation in medicine > Moral and ethical aspects.
Clinical Trials as Topic
Human Experimentation > ethics
Patient Selection
Drug Design
Internationality
Études cliniques > Aspect moral.
Médicaments > Essais cliniques > Aspect moral.
Médicaments > Conception.
Expérimentation humaine en médecine > Aspect moral.
Sélection de patients.
Ethik
Globalisierung
Klinisches Experiment
Offshoring
Médicaments > Essais cliniques > Aspect moral.
Médecine > Recherche > Aspect moral.
Klinisk prövning > etik och moral.
Läkemedel > testning > etik och moral.
Medicinska experiment på människor > etik och moral.
Läkemedel > testning > samhällsaspekter.
Entwicklungsländer.
Table of Contents:
  • Ethical variability
  • Arts of drug development
  • The global clinical trial
  • Pharmaceuticals and the right to health.

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