Brief Presentation:
Paradigmas presented a series of Posts related to the Pharmaceuticals, originated from a Post published, probably in 2007, in the French newspaper “Le Monde” called «Portraits of a Medical “Apartheid” and written by Sonia Shah, a Canadian journalist who authored the books “The Body Hunter” and “Crude: The Story of Oil“.
The Post penetrates the dark business of Pharmaceuticalsand reveals some details that are at least interesting, which give us an account of a certain not so racial, but social and economic segregation in the operation of this corporate machine.
Index:
To facilitate the reading of this Posts, we divided it into 10 parts. It was decided to create an Index.
- Part 1: The begining;
- Part 2: In a billion market, 100,000 “volunteers” for each drug;
- Part 3: The more diseases and “events”, the easier and faster the tests;
- Part 4: South Africa: “a great country for AIDS”;
- Part 5: Large testing companies multiply branches in the south of the planet;
- Part 6: “They are more willing to be guinea pigs”;
- Part 7: Supervisory agencies turn a blind eye to testing in poor countries;
- Part 8: India, the ideal laboratory: there is no medical code of ethics;
- Part 9: Involuntary sterilizations, leprosy patients without treatment …;
- Part 10: A practice that undermines the legitimacy of Western medicine.
