India and the Patent Wars: Pharmaceuticals in the New Intellectual Property Regime (The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work)

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India and the Patent Wars contributes to an international debate over the costs of medicine and restrictions on get admission to under stringent patent laws showing how activists and drug companies in low-source of revenue countries snatch agency and exert influence over these processes. Murphy Halliburton contributes to analyses of globalization inside the fields of anthropology, sociology, law, and public health by drawing on interviews and ethnographic work with pharmaceutical producers in India and america.

India has been on the center of emerging controversies around patent rights related to pharmaceutical production and local medical knowledge. Halliburton shows that Big Pharma isn’t all-powerful, and that local activists and practitioners of ayurveda, India’s largest indigenous medical system, have been in a position to undermine the aspirations of multinational companies and the WTO. Halliburton traces how key drug prices have gone down, not up, in low-source of revenue countries under the new patent regime through partnerships between US- and India-based companies, but warns us to pay attention to get admission to to very important medicines in low- and middle-source of revenue countries going forward.


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