Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Global South
Leger, Marie C.
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Description
Title
Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Global South
Author(s)
Leger, Marie C.
Issue Date
2005
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Treichler, Paula A.
Department of Study
Communications
Discipline
Communications
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Health Sciences, Pharmacology
Language
eng
Abstract
The evidence indicates that numerous factors---including a patent system which rewards cutting research and development time, scarcities of research subjects in the United States, an uneven global gradient of health care access, and changing health demographics in the Global South---have prompted the development of an extensive international infrastructure for conducting clinical trials. This infrastructure is not only technical and physical, but also ethical. This project demonstrates that in general, contemporary ethical systems---which omit both empirical accounts of the local experiences of patients participating in global clinical research and considerations of the larger social, economic, and cultural contexts within which research is taking place---are insufficient to meet the challenges posed by clinical globalization.
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