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Experimenting with the Consumer.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-SEP-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Experimenting with the Consumer.(Book review)

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Experimenting with the Consumer

Marshall S. Shapo

Praeger Publishers

www.greenwood.com

304 pp., $39.95

Human experimentation on a massive, unsuspecting population: Sound like a plot from a science fiction novel or a description from the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals?

Not so, says Northwestern University School of Law Professor Marshall Shapo in his book Experimenting with the Consumer. The Mass Testing of Risky Products on the American Public. We are all human guinea pigs unwittingly subjected to experimentation by manufacturers, scientists, and regulators, he writes. For us, there are no carefully controlled procedures or people in white lab coats--and there...

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