Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients - Softcover

Sonia Shah

 
9781595582140: Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1595582142 ISBN 13: 9781595582140
Verlag: The New Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

Hailed by John le Carré as "an act of courage on the part of its author" and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carré's acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the feature film based on it.

"A trenchant exposé . . . meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence" (Publishers Weekly), Sonia Shah's riveting journalistic account shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing new global trend. Drawing on years of original research and reporting in Africa and Asia, Shah examines how the multinational pharmaceutical industry, in its quest to develop lucrative drugs, has begun exporting its clinical research trials to the developing world, where ethical oversight is minimal and desperate patients abound. As the New England Journal of Medicine notes, "it is critical that those engaged in drug development, clinical research and its oversight, research ethics, and policy know about these stories," which tell of an impossible choice being faced by many of the world's poorest patients―be experimented upon or die for lack of medicine.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Sonia Shah is an independent journalist and the author of Crude: The Story of Oil. Her articles have appeared in Salon, Playboy, and The Nation, and have been widely anthologized. A 2005 investigative journalism fellow of The Nation Institute, she lives in Boston, Massachusetts. John le Carré is the author of numerous bestselling novels. He lives in Cornwall, England.

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Verlag
The New Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1595582142
ISBN 13 
9781595582140
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
242
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