Big Pharmaceutical Companies Profit Off of Human Misery

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Big Pharmaceutical Companies Profit Off of Human Misery

 

 

 

 

 

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How Big Pharmaceutical Companies Use Poor People as Guinea Pigs -- The

Documented Facts

 

The Body Hunters:Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients

Sonia Shah

 

BuzzFlash.com's Review (excerpt)

 

John Le Carre writes ficiton, as he did in " The Constant Gardener. "

But " The Constant Gardner " was based on fact, on the how big

pharmaceutical firms have used the poor of the southern hemisphere, in

particular, to serve as guinea pigs for medications to be sold at

great profit in Western nations.

 

" The Constant Gardener " was fiction ground in fact; and " The Body

Hunters " details the truth about " testing new drugs on the worlds

poorest patients. "

 

Indeed, John Le Carre wrote the foreward for " The Body Hunters "

 

Le Carre begins, " This book is an act of courage on the part of its

author and publisher. " He then reveals that he has received many book

proposals to expose the pharmaceutical industry, but no one followed

through except for Sonia Shah.

 

Why? Well, as " The Constant Gardener " reveals, and Le Carre mentions

in his forward, the authors or publishers found it " too risky " to

proceed with the books.

 

Except for Sonia Shah and The New Press.

 

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Other Reviews

" This eye-opening account offers an inside look into how the

pharmaceutical industry, aided and abetted by the FDA policies,

carries out ethically problematic reasearch in developing countries. "

 

-- Ruth Macklin, Professor of Bioethics, Albert Einstein College of

Medicine

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