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Adverse Events : Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals / Jill A. Fisher.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fisher, Jill A., Author.
- Series:
- NYU scholarship online.
- Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- validity.
- study compensation.
- social world.
- social network.
- Equality.
- serial participation.
- screen failure.
- Risk.
- research staff.
- research participation.
- Reputation.
- region.
- Race.
- qualifying.
- Public health.
- Profit.
- phase I.
- phase I trials.
- phase I industry.
- phase I clinical trials.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Participation.
- opportunism.
- model organism.
- methods.
- informed consent.
- inclusion-exclusion criteria.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (329 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, c2020
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific resultsImagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction: “Your Health Is Your Wealth”
- 1. Entering the Clinic
- 2. “Doing the Lab Rat Thing”
- 3. A Tale of Three Cultures
- 4. The Commercialization of Phase I Trials
- 5. A Laboratory for Human Animals
- 6. The Dark Side of the Model
- 7. Consenting to Adverse Events
- 8. Constructing Risk Knowledge
- 9. Speculating on Health
- Conclusion: The Social Inequality of Adverse Events
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-6143-X
- OCLC:
- 1165364935
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