Abstract
Drawing on statistical data, this chapter illustrates the considerable variations in the backgrounds of healthy volunteers. I present the demographic profiles of healthy volunteers and introduce the relationship between income, financial rewards, and financial security. I illustrate how healthy volunteering in the UK may not be delineated purely as the preserve of marginalised and unemployed individuals . Rather, based on the sample used in the research informing this book, it appears that healthy volunteers in the UK are mostly employed in full-time and relatively well-paid jobs . I argue that healthy volunteer involvement should be seen in the context of rising costs of living and that this makes taking part in clinical drug trials a worthwhile option for some people.
Keywords
- Clinical drug trials
- Healthy volunteers
- Demographics
- Volunteering
- Income
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Mwale, S. (2017). Who Takes Part in Clinical Drug Trials?. In: Healthy Volunteers in Commercial Clinical Drug Trials. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59214-5_4
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