Healthy Volunteers in Commercial Clinical Drug Trials : When Human Beings Become Guinea Pigs

This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical drug trials in the UK. Contemporary society, especially the West, has seen a significant increase in the production and use of pharmaceutical products, particularly for disease treatme...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Mwale, Shadreck (Author)
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Social medicine.
Human body > Social aspects.
Industrial sociology.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319592145
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-59214-5
Physical DescriptionXIX, 150 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Preamble: 'Look at me'
  • 1 Healthy Volunteering: The Concept of Volunteering in Phase I Clinical drug trials in the UK
  • 2 Risk, Rewards and Rational Consent in Healthy Volunteering
  • 3 Risk, Motivation and Decision Making in Everyday life: A Phenomenological Approach
  • 4 Who takes part in clinical drug trials?
  • 5 'Context is Everything': - The Reality of Becoming a Human Guinea Pig
  • 6 Economic exchanges? Healthy Volunteering as a Form of Labour
  • 7 Volunteering for Free is Dead, Long live Reciprocity? Revisiting the Gift Relationship
  • 8 When human beings become guinea pigs.

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