Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices

by Adriana Petryna, Arthur Kleinman, Andrew Lakoff

Book Overview

In some parts of the world spending on pharmaceuticals is astronomical. In others people do not have access to basic or life-saving drugs. Individuals struggle to afford medications; whole populations are neglected, considered too poor to constitute profitable markets for the development and distribution of necessary drugs. The ethnographies brought together in this timely collection analyze both the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082233741X
• ISBN13: 9780822337416
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.0"