Peak pharma : toward a new political economy of health / Susi Geiger and Théo Bourgeron.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geiger, Susi, author.

Bourgeron, Théo, 1991- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical industry--Social aspects.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Pharmaceutical industry--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

This text argues that we have reached the 'peak' of a particular model for pharmaceutical production - the neoliberal value model that has been in place since the early 1980s.

Contents:

Query successfulWhat is peak pharma?

Pharma goes neoliberal: systemic shifts in the 1980s

The hiv/aids crisis: testing the neoliberal pharma regime and a bifurcating activist movement

Trips against activists: the advent of a transnational and legal access to medicines activism

Caring capitalists or ruthless predators? the janus face of the pharmaceutical industry in the 2000s

Market repair and the gentrification of the activist mind

Fortifying pharma’s coalition through the art of double-capture

The return of the jedi? how regulators grapple with high-tech and high-priced pharmaceuticals

The covid-19 crisis: rising profits, endangered coalitions

At the crossroads of crises: how the pharma industry is not returning to normal

A health dystopia: the rise of pharmafeudalism

A health utopia: a new political economy of health

Towards a new political economy of health: a roadmap for policymakers and activists.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 9, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Geiger, Susi. Peak pharma.

ISBN:

9780191993626

019199362X

9780198884545

0198884540

OCLC:

1545746231

Publisher Number:

CIPO000303979

CIPO000331398

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license