IBARW: The Constant Gardener
Aug. 3rd, 2009 12:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deirdreI hadn't thought of anything clever to say for IBARW (International Blog Against Racism Week), but tonight Rick and I watched The Constant Gardener, based on the book by John Le Carré.
Here's an excerpt from a Reuters interview with Le Carré I found:
The plot of the movie revolves around using African natives to test pharmaceuticals on. There is a long-ongoing case about this between Nigerians and Pfizer.
I didn't know about this kind of practice, which is abhorrent, so I'd like to thank Le Carré and the filmmakers for trying to get the message out about this and help raise awareness to save (or maintain) the lives of people in the third world.
Here's an excerpt from a Reuters interview with Le Carré I found:
"What I wrote about in The Constant Gardener was about the outrageous behaviour of the pharmaceutical industry in the Third World, about the misuse of supposedly consenting patients in clinical trials."
Major conglomerates were developing drugs “not to cure the sick and the poor and needy of the world but actually to cure the rich, which is us in the West”, he said.
“You may see this as a radical perception, I see it simply as a humanist one.”
The plot of the movie revolves around using African natives to test pharmaceuticals on. There is a long-ongoing case about this between Nigerians and Pfizer.
I didn't know about this kind of practice, which is abhorrent, so I'd like to thank Le Carré and the filmmakers for trying to get the message out about this and help raise awareness to save (or maintain) the lives of people in the third world.