Mathieu Quet

Illicit Medicines in the Global South

Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India, Kenya and Europe, it analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health interests has shaped global regulation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781032048154
• ISBN-10: 1032048158
• Artikelnr.: 62219953

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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
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