Understanding Drugs Markets: An Analysis of Medicines, Regulations and Pharmaceutical Systems in the Global South

Drawing on anthropology, historical sociology and social-epidemiology, this multidisciplinary book investigates how pharmaceuticals are produced, distributed, prescribed, (and) consumed, and regulated in order to construct a comprehensive understanding of the issues that drive (medicine) pharmaceutical markets in the Global South today.

Carine Baxerres is researcher in anthropology at the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), in the research unit MERIT (IRD-University of Paris) and LPED (IRD-Aix-Marseille University). Her research interests are global and local pharmaceuticals markets in West Africa and more recently in South-east Asia, and health-seeking behaviors. ORCID No: 0000-0003-3023-3449

Maurice Cassier is currently a senior researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS, CERMES3, Paris). He has published extensively on the tensions between exclusive intellectual property rights on medicines and the right to health and has developed a research programme on the new geographies of the pharmaceutical industries in the Souths. He is currently working on new models of innovation and local production of health products, based on the categories of public goods and commons. ORCID No: 0000-0003-3908-8073