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Record Nr.

UNINA9910524880503321

Autore

Elbe Stefan <1975->

Titolo

Pandemics, pills, and politics : governing global health security / / Stefan Elbe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2018]

©[2018]

ISBN

1-4214-2559-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical Research

Influenza, Human - drug therapy

Security Measures - trends

Health Policy

Global Health

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Encapsulating security : pharmaceutical defenses against biological danger -- Discovering a virus's achilles heel : flu fighting at molecular scale -- The pill always wins: Gilead Sciences, Roche and the birth of Tamiflu -- What a difference a day makes : the margin call for regulatory agencies -- Virtual blockbuster : bird flu and the pandemic of preparedness planning -- In the eye of the storm : global access, generics and intellectual property -- 'Ode to Tamiflu' : side effects, teenage 'suicides' and corporate liabilities -- Data backlash : Roche and Cochrane square up over clinical trial data -- 'To boldly go...' : pharmaceutical enterprises and global health security -- Epilogue : pharmaceuticals, security and molecular life.