Healthy Volunteers in Commercial Clinical Drug Trials: When Human Beings Become Guinea Pigs

By Shadreck Mwale

Book Overview

Preamble: 'Look at me'.- 1 Healthy Volunteering: The Concept of Volunteering in Phase I Clinical drug trials in the UK.- 2 Risk, Rewards and Rational Consent in Healthy Volunteering.- 3 Risk, Motivation and Decision Making in Everyday life: A Phenomenological Approach.- 4 Who takes part in clinical drug trials?.- 5 'Context is Everything': - The Reality of Becoming a Human Guinea Pig.- 6 Economic exchanges? Healthy Volunteering as a Form of Labour.- 7 Volunteering for Free is Dead, Long live Reciprocity? Revisiting the Gift Relationship.- 8 When human beings become guinea pigs.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319592130
• ISBN13: 9783319592138
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 8.3"