JAMA on The Body Hunters

When I was 18 years old or so, I arrived at the frosty, elegant Chicago offices of JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association, in hopes of securing an unpaid journalism internship at the esteemed publication. It was a terrifying experience, and I failed to make the cut. Two decades on, vindication in the form of this wonderful review:

“Investigative journalist Sonia Shah has written a lucid, well-researched work on professional and governmental corruption and mismanagement associated with clinical trials conducted by the pharmaceutical industry in the developing world,” Thomas A. Faunce writes in a review of The Body Hunters (JAMA, Nov 1, 2006, 2149-2150). “It deserves the attention of leaders of the medical profession and policy analysts concerned about the human consequences of US health care costs rapidly approaching the point of unsustainability.”