Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America: State, Society and Industry in Brazil's AIDS Program

ISBN-13: 9781138314351 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 232 str.

Matthew B. Flynn

Opis

Through an in-depth case study of Brazil’s successful experience in providing its citizens universal and free access to AIDS medicines, Matthew Flynn identifies the tremendous technological and political obstacles the country faced and the successful strategies Brazilians employed to guarantee access to high-priced medicines.

Spis treści

Selected Contents: Introduction: Access to AIDS Medicines, Public Health, and the Brazilian Solution  1. Pharmaceutical Autonomy: Technology, Alliances and Norms  2. Elements of Global Pharmaceutical Power  3. The Brazilian Context: Contradictions between Democracy and Neoliberalism  4. Asserting Antiretroviral Autonomy (1992-2002)  5. Patent Power and the Limits of Treatment Activism Autonomy (2003-2006)  6. Consolidating the Pharmaceutical Alliance (2007-2013)  Conclusion

O autorze

Matthew B. Flynn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. His research focuses on the political economy of pharmaceuticals in contemporary society.