Definitions of terms

Clinical trial

http://www.who.int/topics/clinical_trials/en/ Definition of clinical trial according to World Health Organisation

https://www.michr.umich.edu/about/whatisaclinicaltrial

The U-M defines a clinical trial as “a prospective, biomedical or behavioural research study of human subjects that is designed to answer specific questions about biomedical or behavioural interventions (drugs, biologic, treatments, devices, or new ways of using known drugs, biologic, treatments, or devices).

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Clinical-trials/Pages/Definition.aspx

Trials follow a set of rules, known as a protocol, to ensure they're well designed and as safe as possible, they measure the right things in the right way, and the results are meaningful.

Clinical trials are very risky http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/09/opinion/the-solution-to-drug-prices.html?_r=1

It is true that a vast majority of drugs fail. On average, only one in every 5,000 compounds that drug companies discover and put through preclinical testing becomes an approved drug. Of the drugs started in clinical trials on humans, only 10 percent secure F.D.A. approval.

A Marxist point of view on the the State being corrupt while the the ruling class in this case Pfizer seizes the opportunity to oppress the lower class

☀https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1970/ideology.htm

risk and benefits of clinical trials

http://www.roche.com/research_and_development/who_we_are_how_we_work/clinical_trials/what_is_a_clinical_trial.htm

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/ctbenefits.html

http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0827/134930-cork/

http://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/2011/12/oped1-1112.html

contributions of pharmaceutical companies

social dimensions of globalization

http://www.ilo.org/public/english/wcsdg/globali/globali.htm