Product Description: The outsourcing of clinical trials to Latin America by the transnational innovative pharmaceutical industry began about twenty years ago. Using archival information and field work in Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico and Peru, the authors discuss the regulatory contexts and the ethical dimensions of human experimentation in the region...read more

Product Description: Has Mexico, twenty years after beginning the process of decentralizing its health system, realized the anticipated benefits of increased community participation and improvements in efficiency and quality? Addressing this question, "Decentralizing Health Services in Mexico" presents a thorough historical and theoretical grounding, as well as representative case studies of decentralization at the state and local levels...read more

Product Description: Eleven papers from the May 1995 workshop in Granada, Spain focus on the idea that the issues and problems of immigration in the United States and the European Union have many commonalities and that much can be learned from examining the experiences, successes, and failures of both regions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)