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Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
Adriana Petryna
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Description for Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
Paperback. Ethnographic case studies focused on the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical industry and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. Editor(s): Petryna, Adriana; Lakoff, Andrew (University of California, San Diego); Kleinman, Arthur. Num Pages: 301 pages, 5 tables, 5 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHMP; KNDP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 153 x 230 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444.
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical trade and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. They demonstrate that questions about who will be treated and who will not filter through every phase of pharmaceutical production, from preclinical ... Read more
In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical trade and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. They demonstrate that questions about who will be treated and who will not filter through every phase of pharmaceutical production, from preclinical ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822337416
SKU
V9780822337416
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99-1
About Adriana Petryna
Adriana Petryna is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Fellow, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Andrew Lakoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Arthur ... Read more
Reviews for Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices
“Covering an extremely timely topic, Global Pharmaceuticals is a strong and innovative volume with substantial field-based insider knowledge of how pharmaceuticals actually attach themselves to and transform local social relations.”—Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus “Hundreds of millions of people around the world are denied access to desperately needed medications. Eliminating the inequalities of the current system ... Read more