TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisher,Jill A.
TI  - Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals 
T2  - Anthropologies of American Medicine: Culture, Power, and Practice
SN  - 9781479877997
AV  - RM301.27 
U1  - 615.10973 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Drugs
KW  - Testing
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Equality
KW  - Health aspects
KW  - Human experimentation in medicine
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Racism in medicine
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - clinic
KW  - clinical trial culture
KW  - clinical trials
KW  - clinics
KW  - confinement
KW  - consumption
KW  - decision making
KW  - demographics
KW  - drug development
KW  - economic interests
KW  - economic motivations
KW  - economic need
KW  - economic risk
KW  - epistemology
KW  - health-promoting behavior
KW  - healthy volunteers
KW  - identity
KW  - imbricated stigma
KW  - inclusion-exclusion criteria
KW  - informed consent
KW  - methods
KW  - model organism
KW  - opportunism
KW  - participation
KW  - pharmaceutical industry
KW  - phase I clinical trials
KW  - phase I industry
KW  - phase I trials
KW  - phase I
KW  - profit
KW  - public health
KW  - qualifying
KW  - race
KW  - region
KW  - reputation
KW  - research participation
KW  - research staff
KW  - risk
KW  - screen failure
KW  - serial participation
KW  - social inequalities
KW  - social inequality
KW  - social network
KW  - social world
KW  - study compensation
KW  - validity
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Explores the social inequality of clinical drug testing and its effects on scientific resultsImagine 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781479861439
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781479861439/original
ER  -