Pandemics, pills, and politics : governing global health security / / Stefan Elbe
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| Autore: |
Elbe Stefan <1975->
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| Titolo: |
Pandemics, pills, and politics : governing global health security / / Stefan Elbe
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, Maryland : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , [2018] |
| ©[2018] | |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (281 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 362.1 |
| Soggetto topico: | Pharmaceutical Research |
| Influenza, Human - drug therapy | |
| Security systems - trends | |
| Medical policy | |
| World health | |
| 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | At the heart of this issue, Elbe argues, lies something deeper: the rise of a new molecular vision of life that is reshaping the world we live in. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Pandemics, Pills, and Politics |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-2559-9 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910524880503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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