Containing more than 450 entries, this easy-to-read encyclopedia provides concise information about the history of and recent trends in drug use and drug abuse in the United States--a societal problem with an estimated cost of $559 billion a year." Contains more than 450 detaile…
"The current book is a collection of 468 entries that describe aspects of drugs, drug use, and drug abuse that have affected American society. It is intended for those who have an interest in learning more about all aspects of drugs: the composicion of drugs and how they are mad…
Takes the reader through a complexity of issues to explore why, throughout the twentieth century, physicians and sick people on both sides of the Atlantic prescribed or chose a particular medicine--perhaps validated it--often when others felt it was of little or no value or rema…
Takes the reader through a complexity of issues to explore why, throughout the twentieth century, physicians and sick people on both sides of the Atlantic prescribed or chose a particular medicine--perhaps validated it--often when others felt it was of little or no value or rema…
Get a fresh perspective on the day-to-day use of medicine! A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century explores the most perplexing issues concerning the uses of prescriptions and other medicines on both sides of the Atlantic. The book equips you with a thorough under…
Takes the reader through a complexity of issues to explore why, throughout the twentieth century, physicians and sick people on both sides of the Atlantic prescribed or chose a particular medicine--perhaps validated it--often when others felt it was of little or no value or rema…
1. Clinical trials go global -- 2. The placebo control -- 3. Growing the pharma monolith -- 4. Uncaging the guinea pig -- 5. HIV and the second-rate solution -- 6. South Africa : drug trials and AIDS denialism -- 7. Outsourcing to India : the one billion body politic -- 8. Calib…
"The Body Hunters recounts the way the multinational pharmaceutical industry, in its quest to develop lucrative drugs, has begun quietly exporting its clinical research business to the developing world, where ethical oversight is minimal and desperate patients abound. Faced with…
Reveals the unethical drug testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. Based on research and reporting from Africa and Asia, the author shows how the pharmaceutical industry is using testing procedures in the global South that would cause scandals in the deve…
