Pharmapolitics in Russia : making drugs and rebuilding the nation / Olga Zvonareva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zvonareva, Olga (Professor of health, ethics and society), author.

Series:

SUNY series in national identities.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical industry--Soviet Union--History.

Russia (Federation).

Soviet Union.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 204 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, [2020]

Summary:

Documents the surprising role pharmaceutical science and technology has played in Russia's search for national identity over a century of political turbulence. Over the last one hundred years, the Russian pharmaceutical industry has undergone multiple dramatic transformations, which have taken place alongside tectonic political shifts in society associated with the rise and fall of the Soviet Union and the emergence of a post-Soviet order. Pharmapolitics in Russia argues that different versions of the Russian pharmaceutical industry took shape in a co-productive process, equally involving political ideologies and agendas, and technoscientific developments and constraints. Drawing on interviews, documents, literature, and media sources, Olga Zvonareva examines critical points in the history of the pharmaceutical industry in Russia. This includes the emergence of Soviet drug research and development, the short-lived neoliberal turn of the 1990s, and the ongoing efforts of the Russian government to boost local pharmaceutical innovation, which in turn produced a now widely shared vision of an independent and self-sufficient nation. The resulting industrial organizations and practices, she argues, came to embed and transmit particular imaginaries of the nation and its future.

Contents:

Introduction : drug development and politics

The Soviet pharmapolitical regime : promising social justice

Neoliberal experiments in the post-Soviet state : producing an alternative vision of society

The arrival of commercial clinical trials in Russia : generating multiple value

Pharma-2020 policy : defining the problems of the Russian pharmaceutical industry

Innovation environment : collaborating in drug development and production

Pharmapolitics in Russia and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-198) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438479934

143847993X

OCLC:

1202598001