
By Sonia Shah
An eye-opening examine great Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials within the international South.
"Medical examine imposes burdens. yet commonly talking, we do not prefer to understand it….If the background of human experimentation tells us something, from the bloody vivisections of the 1st millennium to the Tuskegee Syphilis learn, it's that such burdens made mystery will fall heaviest at the poorest and such a lot powerless between us."—from The physique Hunters
This groundbreaking publication finds the unethical drug-testing practices of the multinational pharmaceutical undefined. In its quest to strengthen profitable new medicinal drugs for the world's wealthy, the has became clear of the healthiness wishes of the world's bad. And but, over the last decade, sizeable Pharma has quietly exported its scientific study company to the worldwide South, the place moral oversight is minimum, and unwell, bad, and determined sufferers are abundant.
In The physique Hunters, investigative journalist Sonia Shah indicates how the pharmaceutical is utilizing trying out techniques within the worldwide South that may reason scandals within the constructed global. In India, dozens of sufferers in drug trials have perished anguish lethal unwanted side effects identified to the FDA; in Zambia, AIDS infants in medical trials were administered placebos.
The physique Hunters is predicated on a number of years of unique examine and reporting from Africa and Asia, and describes dozens of trials, in addition to the checkered heritage of Western scientific technological know-how in terrible nations.