When experiments travel : clinical trials and the global search for human subjects / Adriana Petryna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Petryna, Adriana, 1966-

Contributor:

JSTOR (Organization)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clinical trials--Moral and ethical aspects.

Clinical trials.

Drugs--Testing--Moral and ethical aspects.

Drugs.

Patients--Legal status, laws, etc.

Patients.

Drugs--Design.

Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.

Human experimentation in medicine.

Clinical Trials as Topic.

Human Experimentation--ethics.

Patient Selection.

Drug Design.

Internationality.

Drugs--Testing.

Medical Subjects:

Clinical Trials as Topic.

Human Experimentation--ethics.

Patient Selection.

Drug Design.

Internationality.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 258 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2009]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 world's 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 off-shoring 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, the book 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.

Contents:

Ethical variability

Arts of drug development

The global clinical trial

Pharmaceuticals and the right to health.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781400830824

1400830826

Publisher Number:

99966236175

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.