Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices : Edited by Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff and Arthur Kleinman. Published by Duke University Press, Durham, 2006. Paperback, 312 pages with index. RRP $22.95. ISBN 0 8223 3741 X.

Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff and Arthu

Adriana Petryna, Andrew Lakoff and Arthur Kleinman (eds), Global pharmaceuticals: ethics, markets, practices, Duke University Press, Durham, NC, 2006, 301 pp. ISBN: 0-8223-3729-0 (cloth) 0-8223-3741-X

✍ Maggie Huff-Rousselle 📂 Article 📅 2008 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 54 KB

Global Pharmaceuticals contributes to a relatively recent group of books that provide an informed critique of the pharmaceutical industry 1 . Its freshness lies in the disciplinary perspective, which is not predominantly biomedical or ideologically driven. In the introductory chapter, 'The Pharmace