Globalization and health, Patients in North, guinea-pigs in South ?

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Production
2003, France
Original language
French
Running time
00:52:00
Genre
documentary
Topic
discovery, society
Directed by
Gilles Capelle
Written by
Gilles Capelle
Produced by
System TV
Member page
System TV

The North has established extremel strict principles and regulations in the field of human medical experimentation. "Enlightened consent" is demanded of patients recruited uniquely on a volunteer basis. But do these principles apply in the South, where ethical commissions are often to some degree ineffective or even non-existent, and where medical trials are frequently the only way poorer patients can gain access to treatments that would otherwise be financially out of reach? How then does one become involved in such experiments in Nigeria, Thailand, Senegal, or in Europe ?