Experimenting with the Consumer

Marshall S. Shapo is the Frederic P. Vose Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law. His scholarship over forty years has focused on how society deals with injuries through the legal system and on the interrelationship of science and law. He is the author of 25 books, including his magisterial 3,500-page treatise on products liability, The Law of Products Liability (4th Edition, 2006). His titles on law and society include Compensation for Victims of Terrorism (2005), Tort Law and Culture (2003), and A Nation of Guinea Pigs (1979). He was a Visiting Fellow at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has lectured extensively in Europe and Asia. The American Bar Association bestowed the Robert B. McKay Law Professor Award on Professor Shapo in 2005. He has served as a consultant in liability and injury cases involving medical devices, rocket motors, anti-terror products, swimming pools, Pan Am 103, and sleeping bags.

• INTRODUCTION Chapter One: EXPERIMENTATION: A SURVEY AT TRENCH LEVEL Chapter Two: HIV/AIDS DRUGS: SPEEDING UP SCIENCE, UNDER POLITICAL PRESSURE Chapter Three: BREAST IMPLANTS: A PARABLE OF LAWS RESPONSE TO IMPROVEMENTS ON NATURE Chapter Four: TREATING THYSELFFOR MEN ONLY: VIAGRA Chapter Five: ESTROGENSA GATHERING OF DATA, A G ATHERING STORM Chapter Six: ESTROGENSTHE STORM BREAKS; A STRUGGLE OF MEDICINE, LAW, AND POLITICS Chapter Seven: EXPERIMENTS AT THE BILLION LEVEL :NANOTECHNOLOGY CONCLUSION

"HIV/AIDS drugs, breast implants, Viagra, estrogen, and nanotechnology are the examples Shapo (law, Northwestern U.) describes in detail, but he selected them from a great number of cases in which corporations profited by selling products that they knew were risky but that consumers did not. He concludes with advice for consumers and suggestions for policy changes." - Reference & Research Book News