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Glaxo's guinea pigs The pharma giant is accused of putting pregnant women at risk in unethical drug trials.
  • Consent

    Consent is largely influenced by social and economic factors. Many people in developing countries consent to clinical trials because doing so is the only possible way to access necessary drugs kept at out of reach prices by big pharma. The same thing happens in the US, where health is also a commodity. Desperate people consent to all sorts of things that aren't ethical.

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