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Adverse events : race, inequality, and the testing of new pharmaceuticals / Jill A. Fisher.
LIBRA RM301.27 .F56 2020
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Jill A., 1976- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drugs--Testing--Social aspects--United States.
- Drugs.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects--United States.
- Human experimentation in medicine.
- Racism in medicine--United States.
- Racism in medicine.
- Equality--Health aspects--United States.
- Equality.
- Clinical Trials as Topic--ethics.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Racism.
- Civil Rights.
- Equality--Health aspects.
- Human experimentation in medicine--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Drugs--Testing--Social aspects.
- Drugs--Testing.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Clinical Trials as Topic--ethics.
- Human Experimentation--ethics.
- Racism.
- Civil Rights.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 319 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2020]
- Summary:
- ""Adverse Events" explores the connections between race, inequality, and the testing of new pharmaceuticals"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: "Your health is your wealth"
- Entering the clinic
- "Doing the lab rat thing"
- A tale of three cultures
- The commercialization of phase I trials
- A laboratory for human animals
- The dark side of the model
- Consenting to study adverse events
- Constructing risk knowledge
- Speculating on health
- Conclusion: The social inequality of adverse events.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-303) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781479877997
- 1479877999
- 9781479862160
- 1479862169
- OCLC:
- 1126554058
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