title: Nonconsensual clinical trials: a foreseeable risk of offshoring under global corporatism.
abstract: This paper explores the connection of offshoring and outsourcing to nonconsensual global pharmaceutical trials in low-income countries. After discussing reasons why the topic of nonconsensual offshored clinical trials may be overlooked in bioethics literature, I suggest that when pharmaceutical corporations offshore clinical trials today, nonconsensual experiments are often foreseeable and not simply the result of aberrant ethical conduct by a few individuals. Offshoring of clinical trials is structured so that experiments can be presented as health care in a unique form of outsourcing from the host country to pharmaceutical corporations. Bioethicists' assessments of the risks and potential benefits of offshore corporate pharmaceutical trials should therefore systematically include not only the hoped for benefits and the risks of the experimental drug but also the risk that subjects will not have consented, as well as the broader international consequences of nonconsensual experimentation.
authors: Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, 801 N. Rutledge St., Springfield, IL, 62702, USA, bspielman@siumed.edu.
authors: Bethany
authors: B
authors: Spielman
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000941:ethics*; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004345:Drug Industry / Q000941:ethics* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D015507:Drugs, Investigational; D040861:Ethics, Business; D032984:Ethics, Research; D005060:Europe; D014943:Global Health / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007258:Informed Consent / Q000941:ethics; D016365:Liability, Legal; D009549:Nigeria; D020416:Outsourced Services / Q000941:ethics* / Q000639:trends; D018579:Patient Selection / Q000941:ethics*; D012108:Research Personnel / Q000941:ethics; D035703:Therapies, Investigational; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D015507:Drugs, Investigational
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