ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that the perspicacious caution resonates loudly in the pharmaceuticalized context of health and disease prevention. It examines the negative impact of state-corporate associations in the context of pharmaceuticalized responses to disease and the threat of disease. The chapter focuses on two specific areas: clinical trials and preventative medicine through vaccination. It highlights how social, economic and political factors shape and contributes to abuses perpetrated against human subjects utilized in the advance of medical science. Clinical trials are regarded as an essential process in the development and production of modern drugs, as a means of testing their safety and efficacy. Pharmatechnologies manifesting as medical research, drug production and distribution, epistemological paradigms determining how health, disease and risk are to be conceptualized and negotiated, have now become a mode of governance in an increasingly authoritarian environment.
