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December 21, 2007
Adriana Petryna, '89
Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practice, Duke University Press, 2006
The book: 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 trade and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. Together they demonstrate that questions about who will be treated and who will not filter through every phase of pharmaceutical production, from pre-clinical research to human testing, marketing, distribution, prescription, and consumption.
The author: Adriana Petryna is assistant professor of anthropology at the New School for Social Research.
Posted by tobiaslw at December 21, 2007 02:51 PM