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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461682003321

Autore

Srinivas Smita

Titolo

Market menagerie [[electronic resource] ] : health and development in late industrial states / / Smita Srinivas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford Economics and Finance, an imprint of Stanford University Press, c2012

ISBN

0-8047-8191-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

338.4/761510954

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical industry - Government policy - India

Medical policy - India

Health services accessibility - Developing countries

Medical policy - Developing countries

Pharmaceutical industry - Technological innovations - Developing countries

Pharmaceutical industry - Technological innovations - India

Pharmaceutical industry - Government policy - Developing countries

Health services accessibility - India

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Well Beyond Market Failure -- 2. The First Market Environment -- 3. “Essential” Markets, Public Health, and Private Learning -- 4. Demand and Democracy -- 5. The Second Market Environment -- 6. Demand as Necessary but Not Sufficient -- 7. The Third Market Environment -- 8. Health Technologies in Comparative Global Perspective -- 9. Markets and Metropolis -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Market Menagerie examines technological advance and market regulation in the health industries of nations such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Nigeria, and Japan. Pharmaceutical and life science industries can reinforce economic development and industry growth, but not necessarily positive health outcomes. Yet well-crafted industrial and health policies can strengthen each other and reconcile economic



and social goals. This book advocates moving beyond traditional market failure to bring together three uncommonly paired themes: the growth of industrial capabilities, the politics of health access, and the geography of production and redistribution.