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Fisher, Jill A.

 
9781479862160: Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals
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ISBN 10 : 1479862169 ISBN 13 : 9781479862160
Editeur : New York University Press, 2020

Synopsis

Winner, 2022 Donald W. Light Award for Applied Medical Sociology, given by the Medical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association

Winner, 2021 Robert K. Merton Book Award, given by the Science, Knowledge, and Technology Section of the American Sociological Association

2021 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice Magazine

Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific results

Imagine that you volunteer for the clinical trial of an experimental drug. The only direct benefit of participating is that you will receive up to $5,175. You must spend twenty nights literally locked in a research facility. You will be told what to eat, when to eat, and when to sleep. You will share a bedroom with several strangers. Who are you, and why would you choose to take part in this kind of study?

This book explores the hidden world of pharmaceutical testing on healthy volunteers. Drawing on two years of fieldwork in clinics across the country and 268 interviews with participants and staff, it illustrates how decisions to take part in such studies are often influenced by poverty and lack of employment opportunities. It shows that healthy participants are typically recruited from African American and Latino/a communities, and that they are often serial participants, who obtain a significant portion of their income from these trials.

This book reveals not only how social inequality fundamentally shapes these drug trials, but it also depicts the important validity concerns inherent in this mode of testing new pharmaceuticals. These highly controlled studies bear little resemblance to real-world conditions, and everyone involved is incentivized to game the system, ultimately making new drugs appear safer than they really are.

Adverse Events provides an unprecedented view of the intersection of racial inequalities with pharmaceutical testing, signaling the dangers of this research enterprise to both social justice and public health.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jill A. Fisher, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Medicine and Center for Bioethics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of Medical Research for Hire: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials and the editor of Gender and the Science of Difference: Cultural Politics of Contemporary Science and Medicine.

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Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1479862169
ISBN 13 
9781479862160
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
250
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9781479877997: Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals

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ISBN 10 :  1479877999 ISBN 13 :  9781479877997
Editeur : New York University Press, 2020
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