Overview

Hailed by John le Carr 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 Carr's acclaimed novel The Constant Gardener and the feature film based on it. ""A trenchant expos . . . 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. As the New England Journal of Medicine notes, ""it is critical that those engaged in drug development, clinical research and its oversight, research ethics, and policy know about these stories,"" which tell of an impossible choice being faced by many of the world's poorest patients-be experimented upon or die for lack of medicine.

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Author:   Sonia Shah ,  Sonia Shah
Publisher:   The New Press
Imprint:   The New Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.70cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.429kg
ISBN:  

9781565849129

ISBN 10:   1565849124
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   02 September 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
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Shah has written a brilliant book... this is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant - Shah writes beautifully, with dispassionate, elegant clarity - and it is all the more powerful for it. THE GUARDIAN An insightful missive. - CLAMOR MAGAZINE A stinging jeremiad... Shah has a crisp writing style and that knack for deploying statistics judiciously, rather than maniacally... most rewarding. - THE AGE (MELBOURNE) An engrossing, thoroughly documented warning. - THE ADVERTISER (ADELAIDE)

"""Shah has written a brilliant book... this is not a Michael Moore-style anti-corporate rant - Shah writes beautifully, with dispassionate, elegant clarity - and it is all the more powerful for it."" THE GUARDIAN ""An insightful missive."" - CLAMOR MAGAZINE ""A stinging jeremiad... Shah has a crisp writing style and that knack for deploying statistics judiciously, rather than maniacally... most rewarding."" - THE AGE (MELBOURNE) ""An engrossing, thoroughly documented warning."" - THE ADVERTISER (ADELAIDE)"""

Author Information

Sonia Shah is the author of Crude: The Story of Oil and an independent journalist. Her articles have appeared in Salon, Playboy, The Nation, Orion, and elsewhere, and have been widely anthologized.

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