Understanding Drugs Markets: An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceu

Description: Understanding Drugs Markets by Carine Baxerres, Maurice Cassier Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive (medicine) pharmaceutical markets in the Global South today. FORMAT Hardcover CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive (medicine) pharmaceutical markets in the Global South today. Based on primary research conducted in Benin and Ghana, and additional data collected in Cambodia and the Ivory Coast, this volume uses artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) against malaria as a central case study. It highlights the influence of the countries colonial and post-colonial history on their models for state regulation, production, and distribution, explores the determining role transnational actors as well as industries from the North but also and increasingly from the South play in influencing local pharmaceutical markets and looks at the behaviour of health care professionals and individuals. Stepping back, the authors then unpick the pharmaceuticalization process and the multiple regulations at stake by looking at the workings of, and linkages between, (biomedical health) pharmaceutical systems, (representatives of companies) industries, actors in private distribution, and consumer practices. Providing a thorough comparative analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of different pharmaceutical systems, it is an important contribution to the literature on pharmaceutalization and the governance of medication. It is of interest to students, researchers and policy-makers interested in medical anthropology, the sociology of health and illness, global health, healthcare management and pharmacy. The Open Access version of this book, available at , has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. Author Biography Carine Baxerres is researcher in anthropology at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), in the research unit MERIT (IRD-University of Paris) and LPED (IRD-Aix-Marseille University). Her research interests are global and local pharmaceuticals markets in West Africa and more recently in South-east Asia, and health-seeking behaviors. ORCID No: 0000-0003-3023-3449Maurice Cassier is currently a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, CERMES3, Paris). He has published extensively on the tensions between exclusive intellectual property rights on medicines and the right to health and has developed a research programme on the new geographies of the pharmaceutical industries in the Souths. He is currently working on new models of innovation and local production of health products, based on the categories of public goods and commons. ORCID No: 0000-0003-3908-8073 Table of Contents Introduction-Pharmaceutical markets in the Global South: shaped by history and multiple regulations Part I. Varying choices for State regulation and their consequences 1.Strengthening national pharmaceutical regulation through local production 2.Strengths and weaknesses of State-controlled wholesale distribution: Benins CAME and wholesaler-distributors 3.Distribution and access to medicines: role of the pharmacist monopoly 4.From depharmaceuticalization to drug abundance: a social history of pharmaceutic regulations in Cambodia Part II. Global and local markets of new antimalarials 5.A new geography of pharmaceuticals: trajectories of artemisinin-based medicines 6.Clashes between subsidized and private ACT markets: when administrative, Global Health, and marketing regulations collide 7.When the pharmaceutical system creates persistent attachments or new appropriations of drug molecules: divergent ACT distribution and use in Benin and Ghana 8.Standardized herbal medicines in Ghana: the construction of a substantial share of the medicine market, especially for malaria Part III. Pharmaceuticalization: medicines at the heart of health systems and societies 9.Pharmaceutical representative activities in Benin and Ghana: promoting firms while helping construct the pharmaceutical economy of African countries 10.Self-medication versus consultation: individual autonomy and dependence in health decisions 11.When subjective quality shapes the whole economy of pharmaceutical distribution and production. Conclusion-Rationalizing drug markets in the Global South: re-making medicines essential Details ISBN036735067X Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2021 ISBN-10 036735067X ISBN-13 9780367350673 Format Hardcover Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 296 AU Release Date 2021-07-28 NZ Release Date 2021-07-28 Publication Date 2021-07-28 UK Release Date 2021-07-28 Series Routledge Studies in the Sociology of Health and Illness Author Maurice Cassier Subtitle An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceutical Systems in the Global South Edited by Maurice Cassier Illustrations 8 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 43 Halftones, black and white; 45 Illustrations, black and white Alternative 9781032043135 DEWEY 338.476151091724 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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