The body hunters : testing new drugs on the world's poorest patients / Sonia Shah.

Author Shah, Sonia.

ImprintNew York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton, 2006.

Descriptionxiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.

Note: Content1. 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.

ISBN:1565849124

ISBN:9781565849129

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