Introduction : a guinea pig's wage: risk, body commodification, and the ethics of pharmaceutical research in America
Guinea-pigging : the in/formal economy of phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia
Market recruitment, identity, and resistance among professional guinea pigs
Local knowledge and risk management among professional guinea pigs
Big Pharma and HIV clinical trials: a case study
Strategies of survival : HIV clinical trials and the fight for their lives
From prisoners to professionals : a brief history of the clinical-trial enterprise
Ethics and the exploitation of the poor in clinical trials research
Conclusion : living in/off the mild torture economy as trial subjects
Epilogue : following up : Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam one last time.