Illicit Medicines in the Global South: Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation

ISBN-13: 9781032048154 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 194 str.

Mathieu Quet

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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