Body Hunters
Director Paul Jenkins
Countries France
Duration 78 min
Synopsis
IN has become one of the world’s hot new destinations for the outsourcing of clinical trials research. The industry there is predicted to be worth billions of euros, and is expanding rapidly.‘Body Hunters’ investigates the ethics and science of this powerful industry by taking IN as a case example – and examines whether, by locating trials for drugs we consume in countries where regulation may be lax and corruption a fact of life, the pharmaceutical industry is taking chances not only with the safety of those in IN participating in the trials, but also ultimately our safety back in the West.
IN has become one of the world’s hot new destinations for the outsourcing of clinical trials research. The industry there is predicted to be worth billions of euros, and is expanding rapidly.‘Body Hunters’ investigates the ethics and science of this powerful industry by taking IN as a case example – and examines whether, by locating trials for drugs we consume in countries where regulation may be lax and corruption a fact of life, the pharmaceutical industry is taking chances not only with the safety of those in IN participating in the trials, but also ultimately our safety back in the West.