Format:
1 online resource (321 pages)
ISBN:
9781000413144
Content:
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.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780367350673
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780367350673
Language:
English
