Pharmaceutical research, democracy and conspiracy : international clinical trials in local medical institutions - Bicudo, Edison (Farnham, Surrey, England : Gower, 2014)
Contents note continued: 5.2.Criteria to Include or Exclude Countries -- 5.3.What is Competitive Recruitment? -- 5.4.Clinical Trials and International Hierarchies -- ch. 6 Hope: The Symbolic Dimension of Global Trials -- 6.1.The'Symbolic Efficacy' of Medicines -- 6.2.The Limits of Medicine -- 6.3.How Trustable are Clinical Trials? -- 6.4.Global Trials for Hopeful Patients -- 6.5.Global Trials for Hopeless Hospitals -- 6.6.The Symbolic Dimension of Global Trials -- Conclusion -- Intermediary Groups and Sociology -- Towards a General Theory of Communicative Action -- Global Trials and Institutionalization.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-171) and index.
Keywords: Drugs -- Testing -- Government policy; Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects; Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects; Clinical trials -- Moral and ethical aspects; Drugs -- Testing -- Government policy; Pharmaceutical industry -- Moral and ethical aspects; Clinical Trials as Topic -- ethics; Drug Industry -- ethics