"Medical Research for Hire presents a vivid and often disturbing picture of everyday life at the new frontiers of pharmaceutical drug development. In this timely book, Fisher sounds the alarm about the new economics of research, where volunteering to be a human subject may become the way for the poor to earn cash or for the uninsured to access medical care."
~Steven Epstein, author of Inclusion: The Politics of Difference in Medical Research
"Jill Fisher shows us the daily workings of neoliberal medicine that produce the 'gold standard' of clinical trials. Anyone concerned with the future of medicine—and with the testing of the pharmaceuticals we ingest—should read this well-crafted, provocative, and disturbing book."
~Arthur W. Frank, author of The Wounded Storyteller and The Renewal of Generosity
"In Medical Research for Hire, Jill Fisher goes behind the curtain of the drug trial industry to tell an interesting and complicated story of what has gone wrong in pharmaceutical research. This well-crafted study offers those who seek justice in health care the rich detail and brilliant analysis they need to change a broken system."
~Raymond De Vries, co-editor of The View From Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences
"For the last two decades, pharmaceutical drug trials increasingly have been outsourced to nonacademic physicians, many of whom now devote a majority of their practice to conducting clinical trials. Fisher examines this trend and outlines many of the problems and risks entailed for both bioethics and economic policy. A valuable contribution to any course in the economics of health care or to more advanced courses in bioethics. Recommended."
~Choice
"Novel, worthwhile reading, and a solid scholarly contribution."
~Nursing History Review
"Jill Fisher's book on ethical integrity in the clinical trials enterprise is a welcome and timely contribution."
~Health Affairs
"Fisher examines the social milieu and the ethical implications of for-profit research in private-practice settings at the height of the boom. The interviews bring out the effects of participating in the clinical trials industry on the doctor-patient raltionship. Her skillful presentation brings out the complexity and contricitions in her subjects' experience."
~Science
