Nancy Olivieri seemed like the classic whistle-blower. A leader in thalassaemia research, she fought to publicise her reservations about a drug she was testing, and came up against the might of big pharma and the medical establishment. This book claims she was not quite the innocent victim she made herself out to be. Miriam Shuchman suggests the story was more complex, and that Olivieri may have been vengeful. Yet this does not alter the fact that she was a dedicated researcher who lost years of her career fighting for funding, academic freedom and justice.
The Drug Trial
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