Description: When Experiments Travel : Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects, Paperback by Petryna, Adriana, ISBN 0691126577, ISBN-13 9780691126579, Used Good Condition, Free shipping in the US
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 worlds 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, th 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.
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Book Title: When Experiments Travel : Clinical Trials and the Global Search f
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Publication Name: When Experiments Travel : Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication Year: 2009
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Ethics, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Adriana Petryna
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
