When Experiments Travel: Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects by Adriana Petryna

Reviewed by Sheldon Krimsky
American Scientist

Those of you who browse bulletin boards or ride in buses or subway cars have undoubtedly come across posters bearing messages like this: “If you are between the ages of 18 and 35 and have difficulty sleeping, you may qualify to participate in a new study that could help your condition.” Such solicitations are now nearly ubiquitous. That’s because the clinical trial business has grown significantly over the past several decades, largely in response to the growth of drug development and of global markets in pharmaceuticals. To get new drugs into the marketplace, companies must deliver safety…

The escapades of the resourceful Bastable children in search of their fortune. When their father’s business fails, the six Bastable children decide to restore the family fortunes.

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Three men trek to the remote African interior in search of a lost friend – and reach, at the end of a perilous journey, an unknown land cut off from the world, where terrible dangers threaten anyone who ventures near the spectacular diamond mines of King Solomon…