...The Work of Experiment<subtitle>Clinical Trials and the Production of Risk</subtitle> ...

... This chapter examines two components of biomedical research from which therapies emerge: the phenomenon of evidence-based medicine and the business of clinical trials. These are the apparatuses of truth making in medicine. They define what counts as “good” medicine. Through them, research...

... This chapter shows how evidence from clinical trials emerges, how those findings determine insurance reimbursement patterns and then treatment standards, and how those organize the work of doctors. It ends with a look at the specter that hangs over these engines of innovation and evidence...

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... Chapter 2 elaborates a politics of civil society advocacy against unethical clinical trials in India as it developed through public scandal. It focuses upon a study conducted to facilitate the rollout of the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine into India’s national immunization program, which...

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... This chapter examines the complex relation between drug and placebo in randomized clinical trials for antidepressants. It shows that there have been long-standing attempts to differentiate the actions of a placebo from those of a drug; indeed, good clinical practice is now based...

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.... Besides the economic gain from clinical trials and novel drugs, the rise of Asian oncology responds to and is affected by feelings of fear and optimism that come from the intellectual ownership of a class of serious diseases that has gained epidemic proportions. For physician-researchers, controlling...

... The introduction provides an overview of the book. It elaborates the definition of “pharmocracy”; it describes the empirical trajectories concerning the global harmonization of clinical trials regulation and intellectual property regimes in India that provide the conjuncture within which...