{"product_id":"the-professional-guinea-pig-9780822348238","title":"The Professional Guinea Pig","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ethnography focused on professional guinea pigs, healthy, paid research subjects who earn their living by participating in multiple Phase I clinical trials testing the safety of drugs in development.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The book makes a compelling argument for why test subjects in the US should be given more protection - and I take my hat off to the author for arguing the case.”\u003cbr\u003e - Clint Witchalls, \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[An] intriguing and worrying book.” - Scott McLemee,\u003ci\u003e Inside Higher Ed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A]disturbing account. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions.” - Meredith Wadman, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roberto Abadie has written an absorbing ethnographic study of clinical trials that focuses not on the clinic or the clinicians, the science or its development, but the research participants in phase one trials (the first stage of testing in humans). . . . [A] fascinating description of the subculture of regular drug-trial volunteers.” - Nathan Emmerich, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig\u003c\/i\u003e gives voice to volunteers skeptical of the current ethical protections in phase 1 trials, even as they endure the risks of those trials. . . . Readers will learn something about a fascinating counterculture. . . .” - Deborah R. Barnbaum, \u003ci\u003eNature Medicine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig\u003c\/i\u003e tells a fascinating story at the entrepreneurial and pharmaceuticalized heart of neoliberal medicine. . . . It is a riveting read and makes important contributions to the anthropologies of neoliberalism, pharmaceuticals, and the body.” - Anne Pollock, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Roberto Abadie has given us a deep, complex, and profoundly disturbing investigation into the dark underside of the clinical trials industry. \u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig \u003c\/i\u003eis not just ethnography. It is a call to action.” —\u003cb\u003eCarl Elliott\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eBetter than Well: American Medicine Meets the American Dream\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig\u003c\/i\u003e gives voice to volunteers skeptical of the current ethical protections in phase 1 trials, even as they endure the risks of those trials. . . . Readers will learn something about a fascinating counterculture. . . .” -- Deborah R. Barnbaum * Nature Medicine *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig\u003c\/i\u003e tells a fascinating story at the entrepreneurial and pharmaceuticalized heart of neoliberal medicine. . . . It is a riveting read and makes important contributions to the anthropologies of neoliberalism, pharmaceuticals, and the body.” -- Anne Pollock * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e“[A]disturbing account. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe Professional Guinea Pig\u003c\/i\u003e raises important questions.” -- Meredith Wadman * Nature *\u003cbr\u003e“Roberto Abadie has written an absorbing ethnographic study of clinical trials that focuses not on the clinic or the clinicians, the science or its development, but the research participants in phase one trials (the first stage of testing in humans). . . . [A] fascinating description of the subculture of regular drug-trial volunteers.” -- Nathan Emmerich * Times Higher Education *\u003cbr\u003e“The book makes a compelling argument for why test subjects in the US should be given more protection - and I take my hat off to the author for arguing the case.”\u003cbr\u003e -- Clint Witchalls * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Note on Method ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments xi\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. A Guinea Pig's Wage: Risk, Body Commodification, and the Ethics of Pharmaceutical Research in America 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Guinea-Pigging: The In\/Formal Economy of Phase I Clinical Trials in Philadelphia 21\u003cbr\u003e 2. Market Recruitment, Identity, and Resistance among Professional Guinea Pigs 45\u003cbr\u003e 3. Local Knowledge and Risk Management among Professional Guinea Pigs 65\u003cbr\u003e 4. Big Pharma and HIV Clinical Trials: A Case Study 85\u003cbr\u003e 5. Strategies of Survival: HIV Clinical Trials and the Fight for Their Lives 97\u003cbr\u003e 6. From Prisoners to Professionals: A Brief History of the Clinical-Trial Enterprise 121\u003cbr\u003e 7. Ethics and the Exploitation of the Poor in Clinical Trials Research 137\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Living in\/off the Mild Torture Economy as Trial Subjects 157\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Following Up: Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam One Last Time 167\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 171\u003cbr\u003e Index 181","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406062559575,"sku":"9780822348238","price":22.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822348238.jpg?v=1730494399","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-professional-guinea-pig-9780822348238","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}