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The Professional Guinea Pig

Paperback • 2010 • English

The Professional Guinea Pig

By Roberto Abadie

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About the book

The Professional Guinea Pig documents the emergence of the professional research subject in Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Until the mid-1970s Phase I trials were conducted on prisoners. After that practice was outlawed, the pharmaceutical industry needed a replacement population and began to aggressively recruit healthy, paid subjects, some of whom came to depend on the income, earning their living by continuously taking part in these trials. Drawing on ethn...Show more

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ISBN

9780822348238

Publisher

Duke University Press

Published year

2010

Language

English

Original title

The Professional Guinea Pig

Format

Paperback

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