"This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries.
The book analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health interests has come to shape global regulation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India, Kenya, and Europe, it demonstrates how large pharmaceutical companies have used the fight against fake medicines to serve their strategic interests and protect their monopolies, sometimes to the detriment of access to medicines in developing countries. The book investigates how the contemporary dynamics of pharmaceutical power in global markets have gone on to shape societies locally, resulting in more security-oriented policies. These processes highlight the key consequences of contemporary ""logistical regimes"" for access to health.
Providing important insights on how the flows of commodities, persons, and knowledge shape contemporary access to medicines in the developing countries, this book will be of considerable interest to policy makers and regulators, and to scholars and students across sociology, science and technology studies, global health, and development studies."
By:
Mathieu Quet
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781032048154
ISBN 10: 1032048158
Series: Routledge Global Health Series
Pages: 194
Publication Date: 21 October 2021
Audience:
College/higher education
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Further / Higher Education
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction – Faith in Fakes? Chapter 1 – In the beginning, a conflict Part 1 - Pharmaceutical Geographies: the mutations of an industry Chapter 2 – The pharmaceutical globalization Chapter 3 – Selling at all costs Part 2 - Pharmaceutical security, between public health and the market Chapter 4 – The regulatory turn to security Chapter 5 – The exercise of pharmaceutical control Part 3 – Pharmaceutical logistics: commodities circulation and lifeforms Chapter 6 — Logistic regimes and the exercise of power Chapter 7 – Diverting flows, contesting power Conclusion Post-Scriptum
Mathieu Quet is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Ceped, Université de Paris, France. His current research focuses upon the entanglements of science, technology, and development in postcolonial contexts.
