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The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
Roberto Abadie
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Description for The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
Paperback. An ethnography focused on professional guinea pigs, healthy, paid research subjects who earn their living by participating in multiple Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: JFMG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 12. Weight in Grams: 294.
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 ethnographic research among self-identified professional guinea pigs in Philadelphia, Roberto Abadie examines their experiences and views on the conduct of the trials and ... Read more
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 ethnographic research among self-identified professional guinea pigs in Philadelphia, Roberto Abadie examines their experiences and views on the conduct of the trials and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822348238
SKU
V9780822348238
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About Roberto Abadie
Roberto Abadie is a visiting scholar with the Health Sciences Doctoral Programs at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Reviews for The Professional Guinea Pig: Big Pharma and the Risky World of Human Subjects
The book makes a compelling argument for why test subjects in the US should be given more protection - and I take my hat off to the author for arguing the case.
Clint Witchalls
New Scientist
Roberto Abadie has written an absorbing ethnographic study of clinical trials that focuses not on the clinic or the ... Read more
Clint Witchalls
New Scientist
Roberto Abadie has written an absorbing ethnographic study of clinical trials that focuses not on the clinic or the ... Read more