Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health

Author:   Susan Craddock
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
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9781517900793


Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 February 2017
Format:   Paperback
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An unparalleled, interdisciplinary analysis, Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), which arose early in the twenty-first century to develop new drugs and vaccines for infectious diseases in low-income countries. Here, for the first time, is a sustained examination of PDPs: the work they do, the partnerships they form, their mission, and their underlying philosophy of addressing global health needs

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Author:   Susan Craddock
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.218kg
ISBN:  

9781517900793


ISBN 10:   1517900794
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   21 February 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Abbreviations Leaders of Product Development Partnerships, 2015 Introduction: Changing the Paradigm of Pharmaceutical Development 1. The Possibilities and Parameters of Drug and Vaccine Partnerships 2. Scientific Collaboration, Innovation, and Contradiction 3. The Contingent Ethics of Tuberculosis Clinical Trials Conclusion: Tuberculosis and the Future of Humanitarian Pharmaceutical Production Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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<i>Compound Solutions</i> is a thoroughly researched, technically dense, and ambitious text. In her meticulous examination of Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), Susan Craddock provides us with a way to understand how wedding profit and humanitarianism will save the lives of poor people around the globe. This book will be an essential resource for understanding contemporary global health and the dilemmas of private public partnering in late capitalism. Lisa Ann Richey, author of <i>Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World</i></p>


<i>Compound Solutions</i> is a thoroughly researched, technically dense, and ambitious text. In her meticulous examination of Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), Susan Craddock provides us with a way to understand how pharmaceutical humanitarianism could save the lives of poor people around the globe. This book will be an essential resource for understanding contemporary global health and the dilemmas of private public partnering in late capitalism. Lisa Ann Richey, author of <i>Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World</i></p>


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Susan Craddock is professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco (Minnesota, 2000) and the coeditor of Influenza and Public Health and HIV and AIDS in Africa.

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