Clinical Globalization: Pharmaceutical Research in the Global South

The evidence indicates that numerous factors---including a patent system which rewards cutting research and development time, scarcities of research subjects in the United States, an uneven global gradient of health care access, and changing health demographics in the Global South---have prompted the development of an extensive international infrastructure for conducting clinical trials. This infrastructure is not only technical and physical, but also ethical. This project demonstrates that in general, contemporary ethical systems---which omit both empirical accounts of the local experiences of patients participating in global clinical research and considerations of the larger social, economic, and cultural contexts within which research is taking place---are insufficient to meet the challenges posed by clinical globalization.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communications

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Leger, Marie C.

Contributors dc:contributor

• Treichler, Paula A.

• Health Sciences, Pharmacology

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3202126

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/86575