Robin Cook - Acceptable Risk - Audio Renaissance Cassette Tapes Book Salem Witch

What's the secret behind the terrifying fits and hallucinations that sparked the Salem witch trials and executions three centuries ago? Researcher Dr. Edward Armstrong thinks he knows, and thinks he can harness that secret to develop Ultra - a psychotropic drug that may provide the world with an entirely new generation of antidepressants - and provide its developers with untold wealth and power. Backed by venture capitalist Stanton Lewis's money and business skills - and hard-pressed by Lewis to bring Ultra on line - Dr. Armstrong and his team short-circuit the testing process and begin experimenting with the miracle drug on themselves. The tests go amazingly well, with only one apparent problem: some minor episodes of short-term memory loss, certainly an acceptable risk for a drug with so much promise. But Kimberly Stewart, Armstrong's lover, begins to notice other, more disturbing changes in Edward and his co-workers. Changes that will lead her on a terrifying search for the truth - a search that may cost her her life. Acceptable Risk is a window into that area of medical research where pure science and noble intentions collide with hard commercial realities -a perilous convergence where ethics, law and common sense lose their grip. (LR shelves box)