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11 produkter
When Experiments Travel
Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Häftad, 2009
449 kr
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The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate …
Life Exposed
Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
Häftad, 2013
316 kr
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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed …
When People Come First
Critical Studies in Global Health
Av João Biehl, Adriana Petryna
Häftad, 2013
449 kr
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When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold …
Horizon Work
At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
Inbunden, 2022
342 kr
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A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth’s fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our …
Horizon Work
At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
E-bok, 2022
243 kr
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A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worlds As carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth’s fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our …
Horizon Work
At the Edges of Knowledge in an Age of Runaway Climate Change
Häftad, 2024
178 kr
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A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth’s fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our …
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Av Adriana Petryna, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
385 kr
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In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and …
Global Pharmaceuticals
Ethics, Markets, Practices
Av Andrew Lakoff, Arthur Kleinman m. fl.
E-bok, 2006
558 kr
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In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and …
When Experiments Travel
Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
E-bok, 2009
617 kr
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The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world''s poor to participate …
Life Exposed
Biological Citizens after Chernobyl
E-bok, 2013
415 kr
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On April 26, 1986, Unit Four of the Chernobyl nuclear reactor exploded in then Soviet Ukraine. More than 3.5 million people in Ukraine alone, not to mention many citizens of surrounding countries, are still suffering the effects. Life Exposed is the first book to comprehensively examine the vexed …
When People Come First
Critical Studies in Global Health
Av Adriana Petryna, Joao Biehl
E-bok, 2013
617 kr
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A people-centered approach to global health When People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise …
