Tuesday, April 7, 2009

The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Clinical Trials

Metapsychology has a review on a new book following 20 clinical trials from around the US analyzing for profit clinical trials.

Medical research for hire combines indeed ethnography and ethics. The former prevails: the book is rich in quotations from the many interviews conducted by the author and we get to know how the participants in the private clinical trials studied perceive themselves. However, the author only visited a minor fraction of the many organizations conducting trials in the USA and had unequal access to the different types of participants.

Read the full review of the book here.
Buy the book here.

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