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Author Fisher, Jill A., 1976- author.

Title Adverse events : race, inequality, and the testing of new pharmaceuticals / Jill A. Fisher
Published New York : New York University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 319 pages) : illustrations
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Contents List of tables and figures -- Introduction: "Your health is your wealth" -- 1. Entering the clinic -- 2. "Doing the lab rat thing" -- 3. A tale of three cultures -- 4. The commercialization of phase I trials -- 5. A laboratory for human animals -- 6. The dark side of the model -- 7. Consenting to adverse events -- 8. Constructing risk knowledge -- 9. Speculating on health -- Conclusion: The social inequality of adverse events -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author
Summary ""Adverse Events" explores the connections between race, inequality, and the testing of new pharmaceuticals"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed January 6, 2025)
Subject Drugs -- Testing -- Social aspects -- United States
Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Racism in medicine -- United States
Equality -- Health aspects -- United States
Civil rights.
Racism in medicine.
Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics
Human Experimentation -- ethics
Racism
Civil Rights
civil rights.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General.
Civil rights
Drugs -- Testing -- Social aspects
Equality -- Health aspects
Human experimentation in medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects
Racism in medicine
United States
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781479861439
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9781479850518
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