Title The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients / by Sonia Shah ; with a foreword by John Le Carre

Published New York : New Press ; London : Turnaround [distributor], 2007

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Description pages cm Contents 1. Clinical trials go global -- 2. The placebo control -- 3. Growing the pharma monolith -- 4. Uncaging the Guinea pig -- 5. HIV and the second-rate solution -- 6. South Africa : drug trials and AIDS denialism -- 7. Outsourcing to India : the one billion body politic -- 8. Calibrating ethical codes -- 9. The emperor has no clothes : the vagaries of informed consent -- 10. Tipping the scales Notes Originally published: 2006 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Drug utilization -- Developing countries. Drugs -- Prescribing -- Developing countries. Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- Developing countries. Pharmaceutical policy -- Developing countries. ISBN 9781565849129 9781595582140 (paperback)

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