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

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Shadreck Mwale

Healthy Volunteers in Commercial Clinical Drug Trials

When Human Beings Become Guinea Pigs

Shadreck Mwale

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Springer International Publishing AG
17 August 2017

Clinical trials; Medical sociology

This book provides a richly detailed contribution to the understanding of healthy volunteer experiences in clinical drug trials in the UK. Contemporary society, especially the West, has seen a significant increase in the production and use of pharmaceutical products, particularly for disease treatment. However, despite the large numbers of people involved, particularly in the UK, very little is known about their experiences in commercial phase I clinical drug trials. Shadreck Mwale critiques common conceptions of the terms ‘volunteer’ and ‘altruism’ as used in policy and practice of human involvement in clinical trials and calls for an awareness of the complexity of the terms and how the social contexts participants find themselves in shape acts of voluntarism. Based on extensive empirical evidence and conceptual analysis, the book presents new insights into the lives of healthy volunteers, challenges bioethical conceptions and generates new frameworks for policy and practice of FIHCTs. It will be of particular interest to scholars and practitioners in the wider social sciences, medical Sociology and medical anthropology, pharmacology and bioethics.

By: Shadreck Mwale
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 3.291kg
ISBN: 9783319592138
ISBN 10: 3319592130
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 17 August 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shadreck Mwale is a Senior Lecturer in Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, UK. His research interests are in health, inequalities, use and regulation of medical technological innovations in health and human involvement in clinical trials.