Understanding drugs markets : : an analysis of medicines, regulations, and pharmaceutical systems in the global south / / edited by Carine Baxerres and Maurice Cassier.
"Drawing on anthropology, sociology and epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, and consumed in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive medicine markets in the Global South today. Providi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London, England ;, New York, New York : : Routledge,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 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: Benin's 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
- Index.