The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients Reviews

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Release: 2007-10-30
Publisher: New Press, The
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 1595582142
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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An eye-opening look at Big Pharma's unethical and exploitative drug trials in the global south—the true story behind The Constant Gardener.

Hailed by John le Carré as "an act of courage on the part of its author" and singled out for praise by the leading medical journals in the United States and the United Kingdom, The Body Hunters uncovers the real-life story behind le Carré's acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the recent feature film based on it. "A trenchant exposé...meticulously researched and packed with documentary evidence" (Publishers Weekly), Sonia Shah's riveting journalistic account shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing new global trend. Drawing on years of original research and reporting in Africa and Asia, Shah examines how the multinational pharmaceutical industry, in its quest to develop lucrative drugs, has begun exporting its clinical research trials to the developing world, where ethical oversight is minimal and desperate patients abound. A Download The Body Hunters for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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