Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America
Brazil has occupied a central role in the access to medicines movement, especially with respect to drugs used to treat those with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). How and why Brazil succeeded in overcoming powerful political and economic interests, both at home and abroad, to roll out and sustain treatment represents an intellectual puzzle.
In this book, Matthew Flynn traces the numerous challenges Brazil faced in its efforts to provide essential medicines to all of its citizens. Using dependency theory, state theory, and moral underpinnings of markets, Flynn delves deeper into the salient factors contributing to Brazils successes and weaknesses, including control over technology, creation of political alliances, and instrumental use of normative frameworks, and effectively explains the ability of countries to fulfill the prescription drug needs of its population versus the interests and operations of the global pharmaceutical industry.
Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America is one of the only books to provide an in-depth account of the challenges that a developing country, like Brazil, faces to fulfill public health objectives amidst increasing global economic integration and new international trade agreements. Scholars interested in public health issues, HIV/AIDS, and human rights, but also social scientists interested in Latin America and international political economy, will find this an original and thought-provoking read.
Matthew Flynn is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia. His interests include political economy, health, and development with a focus on Latin America.
Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
1 Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations
Knowledge and Power in Latin America
Edited by Mercedes Botto
2 The United Nations in Latin America
Aiding Development
Francis Adams
3 Fear and Crime in Latin America
Redefining State-Society Relations
Luca Dammert
4 Populism in Venezuela
Ryan K. Brading
5 Civil Society and Participatory Governance
Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil
Maureen M. Donaghy
6 Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies
Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society
Edited by Moira B. MacKinnon and Ludovico Feoli
7 Lula, the Workers Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil
Hernn F. Gmez Bruera
8 Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America
Bridging the Divide
Edited by Eduardo Silva
9 Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America
Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent
Edited by Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrndez
10 Transforming Brazil
A History of National Development in the Postwar Era
Rafael R. Ioris
11 Pharmaceutical Autonomy and Public Health in Latin America
State, Society, and Industry in Brazils AIDS Program
Matthew Flynn
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Flynn, Matthew (Matthew B.), author.
Pharmaceutical autonomy and public health in Latin America : state,
society, and industry in Brazils AIDS program / Matthew Flynn.
p. ; cm. (Routledge studies in Latin American politics ; 11)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
I. Title. II. Series: Routledge studies in Latin American politics ; 11.
[DNLM: 1. Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndromedrug therapy
Brazil. 2. Anti-Retroviral AgentseconomicsBrazil. 3. Anti-Retroviral
Agentstherapeutic useBrazil. 4. Drug Industryeconomics
Brazil. 5. Health PolicyBrazil. WC 503.2]
RA643.86.B6
362.196979200981dc23
2014034871
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