Roberto Abadie

The Professional Guinea Pig

Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Ethnography of the lives of a new professional drug testing class, analyzing the underground economy of human research subjects (guinea pigs) who test the safety of new drugs for money (illegal immigrants, homeless people, ex-convicts, anarchists, and oth

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348238
• ISBN-10: 0822348233
• Artikelnr.: 30362513

Autorenporträt

Roberto Abadie

Inhaltsangabe

A Note on Method ix
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction. A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk, Body Commodification, and the
Ethics of Pharmaceutical Research in America 1
1. Guinea-Pigging: The In/Formal Economy of Phase I Clinical Trials in
Philadelphia 21
2. Market Recruitment, Identity, and Resistance among Professional Guinea
Pigs 45
3. Local Knowledge and Risk Management among Professional Guinea Pigs 65
4. Big Pharma and HIV Clinical Trials: A Case Study 85
5. Strategies of Survival: HIV Clinical Trials and the Fight for Their
Lives 97
6. From Prisoners to Professionals: A Brief History of the Clinical-Trial
Enterprise 121
7. Ethics and the Exploitation of the Poor in Clinical Trials Research 137
Conclusion. Living in/off the Mild Torture Economy as Trial Subjects 157
Epilogue. Following Up: Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam
One Last Time 167
Bibliography 171
Index 181