An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become glocal - this book examines the tensions that exist between a global pharmaceutical market and the locally bounded discourses and regulations encountered as markets are created for new drugs in particular contexts. Employing the case study of the emergence, representation and regulation of Viagra in the Swedish market, "Glocal Pharma" offers analyses of commercial material, medical discourses and legal documents to show how a Swedish, Viagra-consuming subject has been constructed in...
An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become glocal - this book examines the tensions that...