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BL
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1011659
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b766029
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| Main Entry
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Petryna, Adriana,1966-
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When experiments travel : : clinical trials and the global search for human subjects /\ Adriana Petryna.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, ©2009.
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1 online resource (x, 258 pages)
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| ISBN
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1400830826
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: 9781400830824
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0691126569
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0691126577
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1282820974
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9780691126562
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9780691126579
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9781282820975
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
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| Abstract
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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 offshoring of trials also create new problems. In this groundbreaking book, anthropologist Adriana Petryna takes us deep into the clinical trials i.
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Clinical trials-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Drugs-- Design.
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Drugs-- Testing-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Patients-- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Clinical Trials as Topic.
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Drug Design.
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Human Experimentation-- ethics.
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Internationality.
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Patient Selection.
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Clinical trials-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Drugs-- Design.
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Drugs-- Testing-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Ethik
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Globalisierung
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Human experimentation in medicine-- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Klinisches Experiment
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MEDICAL-- Laboratory Medicine.
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Offshoring
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Patients-- Legal status, laws, etc.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.
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Ethik.
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Globalisierung.
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Klinisches Experiment.
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Offshoring.
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Entwicklungsländer
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Entwicklungsländer.
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| Dewey Classification
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610.72/4
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| LC Classification
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R853.C55P48 2009eb
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2009 F-683
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QV 20.5P498w 2009
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