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

Imprint

New York : New Press, 2006.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	362.1782 Sh13b 2006	---	Available

Description	xiii, 242 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-232) and index.
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.
Subject	Pharmaceutical policy -- Developing countries.
	Pharmaceutical industry -- Corrupt practices -- Developing countries.
	Drugs -- Prescribing -- Developing countries.
	Drug utilization -- Developing countries.
	Medical ethics.
Added Author	Le Carre, John, 1931-
ISBN	1565849124
Standard No.	9781565849129
	YDXCP 2270570