The dawn of the age of globalized medicine has rendered sub-Saharan Africa the pharmaceutical industry’s laboratory. Though the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki holds that individual rights must precede scientific interest, the U.S. turns a blind eye to unethical testing by its firms in the region.
The Boston Globe, 2k6 (“Ends and means; Researchers developing aids drugs must balance their pursuit of effective treatments with the well-being of the people they're testing.; Two controversial new books suggest that too often the good of the trial comes before the good of the subject,” July 2, Lexis)
The 1964 Declaration of Helsinki… FDA-approved tenofovir to developing nations.
No permanent U.S. public health inspection service exists to ensure that testing in Africa is carried out ethically. Status quo inspections are ad hoc and too late.
The Washington Post, 2k (Mary Pat Flaherty, Deborah Nelson, Joe Stephens, Washington Post Staff Writers, 12/18, “Testing Tidal Wave Hits Overseas; On Distant Shores, Drug Firms Avoid Delays--and Scrutiny,” Lexis)
FDA inspectors travel... telling companies they intend to."
These experiments blatantly violate Helsinki, treating patients as objects and failing to acquire their informed consent or provide medical follow-up.
Chippaux, 2k5 (Jean-Philippe, doctor and director of research at the Institute of Development Research at Dakar in Senegal, August, “Pharmaceutical colonialism in Africa,” http://www.afronets.org/archive/200508/msg00103.php)
The developing world is now a... endorse them" permits an unacceptable relativism.
This violation of informed consent shatters individual autonomy, stripping patients of their right to humanity.
Emanuel et. al, 2k (Ezekiel, MD, PhD, David Wendler, PhD, and Christine Grady, PhD, “What Makes Clinical Research Ethical?,” JAMA, 5/24-31/00, vol. 283, no. 20)
Of all requirements, none has… values they had just before the accident.
This calculative gaze reduces the African populace to a batch of nameless cogs at the West’s disposal, their only value stemming from their instrumentality.
Mbembe, 2k1 (Achille, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley “On the Postcolony,” p 104)
In the eyes of the settler... no longer has constituted form.
These experiments parallel those carried out by the Nazis during World War II. This racist ideology regards the African populous as inferior, deeming it expendable.
Katz, 1994 (Jay, Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Yale, “Medicine Ethics and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues,” p. 79-80)
The concentration camp experiments... experimental purposes have never gained much favor.
Highly toxic drugs are unleashed genocidally upon the populace via testing, murdering millions.
In Africa and other regions… of our planet - as “genocide”.
The construction of sub-Saharan Africa as disposable makes its extermination inevitable. As long as the U.S. remains ignorant of ethical protections biopolitical racism will continue to flourish. The deployment of killer viruses upon the region is only the first step. This logic makes continued war, violence, and environmental degradation inevita
Contention One: Outsourcing Death
The dawn of the age of globalized medicine has rendered sub-Saharan Africa the pharmaceutical industry’s laboratory. Though the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki holds that individual rights must precede scientific interest, the U.S. turns a blind eye to unethical testing by its firms in the region.
The Boston Globe, 2k6 (“Ends and means; Researchers developing aids drugs must balance their pursuit of effective treatments with the well-being of the people they're testing.; Two controversial new books suggest that too often the good of the trial comes before the good of the subject,” July 2, Lexis)
The 1964 Declaration of Helsinki… FDA-approved tenofovir to developing nations.
No permanent U.S. public health inspection service exists to ensure that testing in Africa is carried out ethically. Status quo inspections are ad hoc and too late.
The Washington Post, 2k (Mary Pat Flaherty, Deborah Nelson, Joe Stephens, Washington Post Staff Writers, 12/18, “Testing Tidal Wave Hits Overseas; On Distant Shores, Drug Firms Avoid Delays--and Scrutiny,” Lexis)
FDA inspectors travel... telling companies they intend to."
These experiments blatantly violate Helsinki, treating patients as objects and failing to acquire their informed consent or provide medical follow-up.
Chippaux, 2k5 (Jean-Philippe, doctor and director of research at the Institute of Development Research at Dakar in Senegal, August, “Pharmaceutical colonialism in Africa,” http://www.afronets.org/archive/200508/msg00103.php)
The developing world is now a... endorse them" permits an unacceptable relativism.
This violation of informed consent shatters individual autonomy, stripping patients of their right to humanity.
Emanuel et. al, 2k (Ezekiel, MD, PhD, David Wendler, PhD, and Christine Grady, PhD, “What Makes Clinical Research Ethical?,” JAMA, 5/24-31/00, vol. 283, no. 20)
Of all requirements, none has… values they had just before the accident.
This calculative gaze reduces the African populace to a batch of nameless cogs at the West’s disposal, their only value stemming from their instrumentality.
Mbembe, 2k1 (Achille, Professor at the University of California, Berkeley “On the Postcolony,” p 104)
In the eyes of the settler... no longer has constituted form.
These experiments parallel those carried out by the Nazis during World War II. This racist ideology regards the African populous as inferior, deeming it expendable.
Katz, 1994 (Jay, Professor Emeritus of Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry at Yale, “Medicine Ethics and the Third Reich: Historical and Contemporary Issues,” p. 79-80)
The concentration camp experiments... experimental purposes have never gained much favor.
Highly toxic drugs are unleashed genocidally upon the populace via testing, murdering millions.
Rath, 2k7 (Dr. Matthias, member of New York Academy of Sciences, founder of the Cellular Medicine and author, March 23, “South African
Lawsuit Exposes Pharmaceutical Colonialism,” Dr. Rath Health Foundation,
http://www4.drrathfoundation.org/THE_FOUNDATION/About_Dr_Matthias_Rath/pharm_colon_march07.htm)
In Africa and other regions… of our planet - as “genocide”.
The construction of sub-Saharan Africa as disposable makes its extermination inevitable. As long as the U.S. remains ignorant of ethical protections biopolitical racism will continue to flourish. The deployment of killer viruses upon the region is only the first step. This logic makes continued war, violence, and environmental degradation inevita