The spectacular generic : pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico / Cori Hayden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hayden, Cori, 1970- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Critical global health

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--Mexico.

Medical policy.

Generic drugs--Mexico.

Generic drugs.

Pharmaceutical industry--Political aspects--Mexico.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Public health--Economic aspects--Mexico.

Public health.

Medical policy--Latin America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2023.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a post-patent world. In the early 2000s, González Torres, aka "Dr. Simi," capitalized on the creation of new markets for generic medicines, selling cheaper copies of leading-brand drugs across Latin America. But Dr. Simi has not simply competed with the transnationals; his enterprise has also come to compete with the Mexican state, reorganizing the provision of medicine and basic health care for millions of people. Hayden juxtaposes this story with Dr. Simi's less successful efforts in Argentina, where he confronted a radically different configuration of pharmaceutical politics. Building from these diverging trajectories, Hayden illuminates the politics of generic substitution as a question that goes beyond substituting one drug for another. Generic politics can radically reshape the relations among consumers, states, and pharmaceutical markets, even as they have yet to resolve the problems of cost and access."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: Rx for MX : Dr. Simi's Mexican revolution

Same and not the same

Simipolitics : state and not the state

No patent, no generic

Access, excess

Supergeneric vs. mere commodity.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Hayden, Cori, 1970- Spectacular generic.

ISBN:

9781478023678

1478023678

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.