Description
Book SynopsisEthnographic 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.
Trade Review“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 of drug production and distribution requires a deep and nuanced understanding of that system. By offering ethnographically grounded investigations of the dynamics of the global pharmaceutical industry, this volume advances significantly an urgent research agenda.”—Dr. Jim Yong Kim, Director, Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization
“This collection of brilliantly incisive essays gives us the necessary standpoint from which to view the increasing global circulation of pharmaceuticals, the spreading influence of ‘Big Pharma,’ and the growing use of medication to shape identities in a neoliberal world order. It is a work of superior, innovative scholarship, addressing issues of major contemporary significance.”—Warwick Anderson, author of
The Cultivation of Whiteness: Science, Health, and Racial Destiny in Australia“This volume contributes to the literature of pharmaceutical anthropology, reinforcing a portrait of the pharmaceutical industry as a business that is concentrated in a handful of large commercial entities that invest heavily in research and marketing. . . . The individual chapters are strong scholarly, and primarily anthropological contributions. I recommend the book for libraries and for academics and other professionals.” -- Nina L. Etkin * American Anthropologist *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
The Pharmaceutical Nexus / Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman 1
Globalizing Human Subjects Research / Adriana Petryna 33
The New Medical Oikumene / David Healy 61
Educating for Global Mental Health: The Adoption of SSRIs in Japan / Kalman Applbaum 85
High Contact: Gifts and Surveillance in Argentina / Andrew Lakoff 111
Addiction Markets: The Case of High-Dose Buprenorphine in France / Anne M. Lovell 136
Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The Register of the Local / Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 171
Pharmaceutical Governance / João Biehl 206
Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of Unequal Access in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Betty Kyaddondo 240
References 263
Contributors 289
Index 291
