Saturday, August 21, 2021

New Book "Illicit Medicines in the Global South: Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation" | by Mathieu Quet, Routledge, 2021

Illicit Medicines in the Global South: Public Health Access and Pharmaceutical Regulation
By Mathieu Quet, Routledge, 2021, ISBN 9781032048154.

About the Book: This book investigates pharmaceutical regulation and the public health issue of fake or illicit medicines in developing countries. The book analyses the evolution of pharmaceutical capitalism, showing how the entanglement of market and health interests has come to shape global regulation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in India, Kenya, and Europe, it demonstrates how large pharmaceutical companies have used the fight against fake medicines to serve their strategic interests and protect their monopolies, sometimes to the detriment of access to medicines in developing countries. The book investigates how the contemporary dynamics of pharmaceutical power in global markets have gone on to shape societies locally, resulting in more security-oriented policies. These processes highlight the key consequences of contemporary "logistical regimes" for access to health. Providing important insights on how the flows of commodities, persons, and knowledge shape contemporary access to medicines in the developing countries, this book will be of considerable interest to policy makers and regulators, and to scholars and students across sociology, science and technology studies, global health, and development studies.

Table of Contents
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

About the Author: Mathieu Quet is a Senior Research Fellow in Sociology at Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Ceped, Université de Paris, France. His current research focuses upon the entanglements of science, technology, and development in postcolonial contexts.

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