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Human trials : scientists, investors, and patients in the quest for a cure / by Quinn, Susan.;
Over fifty million people suffer from some form of autoimmune disease--multiple sclerosis, arthritis, lupus, and other afflictions in which the body attacks itself--none of them with a lasting cure. Susan Quinn has investigated the worlds where new autoimmune drugs are being developed: the research labs, the drug-company boardrooms, and the clinics where patients become "subjects" in the search for new medicines and treatments. Her story is one of real people: fiercely competing scientists, ambitious venture capitalists, and, anxious, sick human beings. She takes the reader inside these otherwise closed worlds, into the lead investigator's diaries, the tense closed-door meetings with investors, and the hopeful or heart-rending encounters in doctor's offices. Hers is the archetypal story of all medical research: the roller-coaster trip from the lab bench to the medicine cabinet, in which only a very few new drugs and treatments survive. Susan Quinn catches the hopes, triumphs, and crushing failures, the greed and the idealism in these dramatic human trials.
Subjects: Clinical trials.; Human experimentation in medicine.;
© c2001., Perseus Pub.,
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Stiff : the curious lives of human cadavers / by Roach, Mary.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-303).A head is a terrible thing to waste: practicing surgery on the dead -- Crimes of anatomy: body-snatching and other sordid tales from the dawn of human dissection -- Life after death: on human decay and what can be done about it -- Dead man driving: human crash test dummies and the ghastly, necessary science of impact tolerance -- Beyond the black box: when the bodies of the passengers must tell the story of a crash -- The cadaver who joined the army: the sticky ethics of bullets and bombs -- Holy cadaver: the crucifixion experiments -- How to know if you're dead: beating-heart cadavers, live burial, and the scientific search for the soul -- Just a head: decapitation, reanimation, and the human head transplant -- Eat me: medicinal cannibalism and the case of the human dumplings -- Out of the fire, into the compost bin: and other new ways to end up -- Remains of the author: will she or won't she?Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are no longer with them.
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine.; Dead.; Human dissection.; Autopsy.; Cadaver.; Dissection.;
© 2004, ©2003., W.W. Norton & Co.,
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Nano [sound recording] / by Cook, Robin,1940-; Guidall, George.;
Reading by George Guidall of the 2012 book.Pia takes a year off from her medical studies to work at Nanobots, a lavish nanotechnology institute that is a leader in the construction of microbivores, tiny nano-robots than can gobble up viruses and bacteria. But troubling occurrences cause her to wonder: is the tech giant on the cusp of huge medical discoveries, or have they already sold out to the highest bidder?
Subjects: Suspense fiction.; Audiobooks.; Medical students; Human experimentation in medicine; Nanotechnology; Conspiracies;
© p2012., Penguin Audio,
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Seize the night [sound recording] / by Koontz, Dean R.(Dean Ray),1945-; Szarabajka, Keith.;
Read by Keith Szarabajka.Poet Christopher Snow, a man who cannot stand daylight, teams up with his genetically engineered dog, Orson, to investigate the abduction of children in Moonlight Bay, California. The children are believed to be prisoners in an army base populated by intelligent animals, produced by scientific experiments. Snow and Orson penetrate the base to search for them. A sequel to Fear Nothing.Compact disc.
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Audiobooks.; Human experimentation in medicine; Genetics; Photosensitization, Biological;
© p1998., Random House Audio,
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Serenity [videorecording] / by Whedon, Joss,1964-; Fillion, Nathan,1971-; Torres, Gina.; Tudyk, Alan.; Baccarin, Morena.; Baldwin, Adam,1962-; Green, Jack N.,1946-; Newman, David,1954-; Universal Pictures (Firm);
DVD ; region 1 encoding ; NTSC ; full screen (1.33:1) presentation.Nathan Fillion, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Krumholtz.Director of photography, Jack N. Green ; editor, Lisa Lassek ; music, David Newman ; costume designer, Ruth E. Carter ; production designer, Barry Chusid.MPAA rating: PG-13; for sequences of intense violence and action, and some sexual references.The crew of the Serenity is getting desperate. They have lain lower and lower to protect their doctor, Simon Tam (Sean Maher), and his telepathic traumatized little sister, River (Summer Glau), from the alliance, whom he rescued her from a year earlier. This has made getting jobs harder and now they are desperate. When they take River on a robbery during which Reavers (humans who have gone crazy and turned into cannibals) attack, Simon decides that its time to leave the crew of the Serenity for his and River's safety. She then mutters "Miranda" and goes berserk and nearly shoots Capt. Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), until her brother says the safety word to put her to sleep. Reynolds decides to take them back on board for safety, only now an alliance operative (Chiwetel Ejiofor) is on their tracks and making Reynolds determined to find out what "Miranda" is and what the.
Subjects: Feature films.; Science fiction; Thriller; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Videodiscs.; Brothers and sisters; Human experimentation in medicine; Totalitarianism; Hermanos; Cicencia; Hermanos; Cicencia;
© [2005], Universal Pictures,
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When the wind blows : a novel / by Patterson, James,1947-;
Frannie O'Neill, a young and talented veterinarian whose husband was recently murdered, comes across an amazing discovery near her animal hospital in the woods. Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, soon arrives on her doorstep with an agenda of his own. And then, there is eleven-year-old Max--Frannie's amazing discovery.
Subjects: Science fiction.; Suspense fiction.; Adventure stories.; Science fiction.; Women veterinarians; Government investigators; Human experimentation in medicine; Genetic engineering; Teenagers; Flight; Suspense fiction.;
© c1998., Little, Brown,
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The Nazi doctors : medical killing and the psychology of genocide : with a new preface by the author / by Lifton, Robert Jay,1926-;
Bibliography: p. [507]-539.
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine; Medical scientists; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); World War, 1939-1945;
© c2000., Basic Books,
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Experimenting with the consumer : the mass testing of risky products on the American public / by Shapo, Marshall S.,1936-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-278) and index.Preface -- Introduction -- 1: Experimentation: a survey at trench level -- 2: HIV/AIDS drugs: speeding up science under political pressure -- 3: Breast implants: a parable of law's response to improvements on nature -- 4: Treating thyself with drugs-for men only: the saga of Viagra -- 5: Estrogens: a gathering of data, a gathering storm -- 6: Estrogens-the storm breaks: a struggle of medicine, law, and politics -- 7: Experiments at the billionth level: nanotechnology -- Conclusion -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index.From the Publisher: Experimenting With The Consumer exposes the hazards of the mass-market experimentation in which every American consumer and worker is unwittingly tapped for product risk data by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators. Vioxx, Heparin, Avandia, Paxil, fen-phen, estrogens, silicone implants, pacemakers, formaldehyde in FEMA trailers, C60 buckyballs in coatings-the headlines are increasingly filled with hidden risks coming to light in popular products years after federal agencies approve them for the American public. Shapo shows readers how to get past unreasonable trust or fear and make the best risk-management choices for themselves and their families. He walks them through what questions to ask before consenting to be in a clinical trial; how to evaluate the implied bold-print claims against the small-print disclosures in advertisements for medical products; how to uncover product and environmental risks in their homes, workplaces, supermarkets, and neighborhoods; how to assess and control product risk while maximizing consumer choice and benefit; how to pressure government to tighten consumer protection; and how to seek legal redress. Through a diverse selection of dramatic case studies, Shapo lays bare the incentives of companies and entrepreneurial scientists to fake or obscure experimental data before and after government approval; the fights between interested and disinterested scientists over data; the fights between scientists and doctors over patient rights; the campaigns of activists against government agencies to release experimental drugs; the impact of the journalistic and promotional media on public knowledge and perception of product risk; and the marketing tricks that manufacturers use to harness sexual desire to product launches and to shape the prescription choices of physicians.
Subjects: Products liability; Technological innovations; Human experimentation in medicine; Neue Technologie.; Menschenversuch.; Medizin.; Produzentenhaftung.; Recht.;
© 2009., Praeger,
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The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks / by Dean, Kathryn(Producer),television producer.; Landesman, Peter,1965-screenwriter.; Woo, Alexander,screenwriter.; Wolfe, George C.,television director,screenwriter.; Winfrey, Oprah,actor,television producer.; Byrne, Rose,actor.; Goldsberry, Renée Elise,1971-actor.; Vance, Courtney B.,actor.; Carroll, Rocky,actor.; Uggams, Leslie,actor.; Birney, Reed,1954-actor.; Cathey, Reg E.,actor.; Marsalis, Branford,composer (expression); Yanes, Aaron,editor of moving image work.; El Fani, Sofian,director of photography.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Skloot, Rebecca,1972-Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks.; HBO Films,presenter.; Your Face Goes Here Entertainment (Firm),production company.; Harpo Films,production company.; Cine Mosaic (Firm),production company.; HBO Video (Firm),publisher.; Warner Home Video (Firm);
DVD; region 1; 5.1 Dolby digital.Oprah Winfrey, Rose Byrne, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Courtney B. Vance, Rocky Carroll, Leslie Uggams, Reed Birney, Reg E. Cathey.Music, Branford Marsalis ; editor, Aaron Yanes ; director of photography, Sofian El Fani."The film tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used without her consent to create the first immortal human cell line. Told through the eyes of her daughter, Deborah Lacks (Winfrey), the film chronicles her search, along with journalist Rebecca Skloot (Byrne), to learn about the mother she never knew and understand how the unauthorized harvesting of Lacks' cancerous cells in 1951 led to unprecedented medical breakthroughs, changing countless lives and the face of medicine forever."--Container.Rating: TV-MA.
Subjects: Biographical films.; Historical films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Lacks, Henrietta, 1920-1951; Skloot, Rebecca, 1972-; Lacks, Deborah; African American women; Cancer; Human experimentation in medicine; HeLa cells;
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The Tuskegee Syphilis Study : the real story and beyond / by Gray, Fred D.,1930-; Tuskegee Institute.;
Includes bibliographical references (page 171) and index.Macon County, Alabama -- Origins of the study -- The study, 1932-1972 -- The study revealed -- The lawsuit -- An abrupt end to the study -- Aftermath -- The Presidential apology -- The legacy -- Beyond Tuskegee.
Subjects: Human experimentation in medicine; Tuskegee Syphilis Study.; Syphilis; Syphilis; African American men; Syphilis; Human Experimentation; Informed Consent; African Americans; Prejudice.;
© ©1998, 2013., NewSouth Books,
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