The professional guinea pig
Subtitle: Big Pharma and the risky world of human subjects
By: Roberto Abadie.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Durham [NC]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780822348146; 9780822348238
Subjects: Drugs -- Testing; Drugs -- United States -- Testing; Human experimentation in medicine -- United States
Description: Based on research conducted in Philadelphia from July 2003-December 2004 for Phase I trials and Phase II and Phase III trials conducted through the Community Based Trials Organization for HIV drugs.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : a guinea pig's wage: risk, body commodification, and the ethics of pharmaceutical research in America; title: Guinea-pigging : the in/formal economy of phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia; title: Market recruitment, identity, and resistance among professional guinea pigs; title: Local knowledge and risk management among professional guinea pigs; title: Big Pharma and HIV clinical trials: a case study; title: Strategies of survival : HIV clinical trials and the fight for their lives; title: From prisoners to professionals : a brief history of the clinical-trial enterprise; title: Ethics and the exploitation of the poor in clinical trials research; title: Conclusion : living in/off the mild torture economy as trial subjects; title: Epilogue : following up : Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam one last time.