“The days of the Raj are long gone, but multinational corporations are riding high on the trend toward globalization by taking advantage of India’s educated work force and deep poverty to turn South Asia into the world’s largest clinical-testing petri dish.
The sudden influx of drug companies to India resembles the gold rush frontier, according to Sean Philpott, managing editor of The American Journal of Bioethics.” (Wired News)
In case you wondered, John Le Carré’s Constant Gardener is more prescient than fanciful. Only the location has been changed (to protect the innocent??).
