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The Spectacular Generic - Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico (Hardcover)
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The Spectacular Generic - Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
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In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs
have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of
pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the
Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor,
Victor Gonzalez Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become
potent commodities in a postpatent world. In the early 2000s,
Gonzalez Torres, a.k.a. "Dr. Simi," capitalized on the creation of
new markets for generic medicines, selling cheaper copies of
leading-brand drugs across Latin America. But Dr. Simi has not
simply competed with the transnationals; his enterprise has also
come to compete with the Mexican state, reorganizing the provision
of medicine and basic health care for millions of people. Hayden
juxtaposes this story with Dr. Simi's less successful efforts in
Argentina, where he confronted a radically different configuration
of pharmaceutical politics. Building from these diverging
trajectories, Hayden illuminates the politics of generic
substitution as a question that goes beyond substituting one drug
for another. Generic politics can radically reshape the relations
among consumers, states, and pharmaceutical markets, even as they
have yet to resolve the problems of cost and access.
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