Introduction: A guinea pig's wage: risk, body commodification, and the ethics of pharmaceutical research in America

Guinea-pigging : the in/formal economy of phase I clinical trials in Philadelphia

Market recruitment, identity, and resistance among professional guinea pigs

Local knowledge and risk management among professional guinea pigs

Big Pharma and HIV clinical trials: a case study

Strategies of survival : HIV clinical trials and the fight for their lives

From prisoners to professionals : a brief history of the clinical-trial enterprise

Ethics and the exploitation of the poor in clinical trials research

Conclusion: Living in/off the mild torture economy as trial subjects

Epilogue: Following up : Robert Helms, Frank Little, Dave Onion, and Spam one last time.