The Spectacular Generic by Cori Hayden

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Summary

Explores how consumer access to generic drugs has transformed public health care and the politics of pharmaceuticals in the global South. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a postpatent world.

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The Spectacular Generic by Cori Hayden

Cori Hayden explores how consumer access to generic drugs has transformed public health care and the politics of pharmaceuticals in the global South.
Cori Hayden is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of When Nature Goes Public: The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico.
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ISBN 13 9781478019046
ISBN 10 1478019042
Title The Spectacular Generic
Author Cori Hayden
Series Critical Global Health: Evidence Efficacy Ethnography
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Duke University Press
Year published 2023-01-20
Number of pages 256
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