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Licensing, Selling and Finance in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare
Industries is an assessment of the turbulent state of
pharmaceutical and biotechnology markets as we enter the second
decade of the 21st Century. At the same time, the book offers a
cautionary evaluation of the future financing of innovation in
terms of what's gone wrong and how to succeed in the future. Martin
Austin explores the challenge that the pharmaceutical (and related)
industries face in terms of balancing short term, cost containment
and expenditure control in areas such as internal research and
development; whilst embracing in-licensing and the acquisition of
innovative therapies to counteract their impending portfolio
weaknesses in the mid to longer term. The first part of the book
provides an engaging and convincing perspective on the context in
which the industry currently finds itself; the second part is a
pragmatic guide to commercialising your intellectual property;
including how to recognise and value what you have as well as the
new ways of working that you will need to adopt when negotiating,
collaborating and contracting in partnership and alliance with
others. Commentators have described in great detail the cocktail of
commercial, clinical and social issues that threaten to overwhelm
the pharmaceutical industry; Martin Austin's book offers a very
distinctive perspective on these issues and their solution.
The ten essays in "Local Religion in Colonial Mexico" provide
information about the religious culture in colonial Mexico. Carlos
Eire's essay begins the study with the meaning of "popular
religion" in colonial Mexico. Antonio Rubial Garca looks at the use
of icons.
Martin Austin Nesvig's essay discusses Tlatelolco, a city near
Tenochtitlan and the site of Mexico's college for Indian education
where the Indians studied classical Latin, Spanish grammar, and
Catholic theology in preparation for the priesthood. William
Taylor's writing uses an eighteenth-century Franciscan friar to
demonstrate that priests transferred their own religion and
networks of authority, power, and knowledge into their pastoral
service.
David Tavrez uses examples from Oaxaca to show
seventeenth-century Zapotecs were not willing converts to
Catholicism, preferring to retain the "idolatrous" beliefs of their
ancestors. Edward Osowski presents the stories of two Nahua alms
collectors who also served as spiritual leaders in their respective
villages of colonial Mexico. Brian Larkin's essay discusses how
eighteenth-century Mexico City Catholics gradually lost their
belief that earthly prayers could help an individuals soul enter
heaven. Nicole von Germeten tells how men of African heritage
accepted the countrys religious beliefs. Javier Villa-Flores
analyzes the ways masters and slaves made use of Christian dogma to
live with the harsh institution of slavery. The final essay, by
William Christian, Jr., examines the different "Catholicisms" that
exist in the world.
Contributors:
William Christian, Jr., independent scholar
Carlos M. N. Eire, Riggs Professor ofHistory and Religious Studies,
Yale University
Brian Larkin, assistant professor of history, St. John's
University, Minnesota
Edward W. Osowski, independent scholar and a Nahuatl expert living
in Montreal
Antonio Rubial Garca, professor of philosophy, Universidad Nacional
Autnoma de Mxico
David Tavrez, assistant professor of history, Vassar College, New
York
William B. Taylor, Muriel McKevitt Sonne Chair in History,
University of California, Berkeley
Javier Villa-Flores, assistant professor of history, University of
Illinois, Chicago
Nicole Von Germeten, assistant professor of history, Oregon State
University
"As the first collection of essays on local religion in Colonial
Mexico, this volume sets a high standard for the quality of its
contributions and the variety of its contents. A discussion of the
concept of local religion is followed by eight fascinating case
studies from various regions of colonial Mexico, spanning from the
mid-sixteenth to the late eighteenth centuries. The essays refer to
numerous ethnic groups and cultures. Each essay represents the
richness and complexity of Mexican history. William Christian,
known for his work on the local religion of Spain, provides a final
reflection on the topic for New Spain. This book is bound to
benefit students and scholars of history and religion, and to make
us think more about local religion in Mexico today."--Kevin
Terraciano, Associate Professor of History, UCLA
Business Development in the Biotechnology and pharmaceutical
industries accounts for over $5 billion in licensing deal value per
year and much more than that in the value of mergers and
acquisitions. Transactions range from licences to patented academic
research, to product developments as licences, joint ventures and
acquisition of intellectual property rights, and on to
collaborations in development and marketing, locally or across the
globe. Asset sales, mergers and corporate take-overs are also a
part of the business development remit. The scope of the job can be
immense, spanning the life-cycle of products from the earliest
levels of research to the disposal of residual marketing rights,
involving legal regulatory manufacturing, clinical development,
sales and marketing and financial aspects.The knowledge and skills
required of practitioners must be similarly broad, yet the
availability of information for developing a career in business
development is sparse. Martin Austin's highly practical guide spans
the complete process and is based on his 30 years of experience in
the industry and the well-established training programme that he
has developed and delivers to pharmaceutical executives from across
the world.
This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in
modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular
religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors
highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways
that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed
since Mexican independence. They explore such themes as the
relationship between church and state, the resurgence of
religiosity and religious societies in the post-reform period, the
religious values of the liberals of the 1850s, and the ways that
popular expressions of religion often trumped formal and universal
proscriptions. Focusing on individual stories and vignettes and on
local elements of religion, the contributors show that despite
efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong
component of Mexican culture. Portraying the complexity of
religiosity in Mexico in the context of an increasingly secular
state, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in
Latin American history and religion. Contributions by: Silvia
Marina Arrom, Adrian Bantjes, Alejandro Cortazar, Jason Dormady,
Martin Austin Nesvig, Matthew D. O'Hara, Daniela Traffano, Paul J.
Vanderwood, Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Pamela Voekel, and Edward
Wright-Rios
Honorable Mention, Bandelier/Lavrin Book Award in Colonial Latin
America, Rocky Mountain Council on Latin American Studies (RMCLAS),
2019 Honorable Mention, The Alfred B. Thomas Book Award,
Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies (SECOLAS), 2019
Scholars have written reams on the conquest of Mexico, from the
grand designs of kings, viceroys, conquistadors, and inquisitors to
the myriad ways that indigenous peoples contested imperial
authority. But the actual work of establishing the Spanish empire
in Mexico fell to a host of local agents-magistrates, bureaucrats,
parish priests, ranchers, miners, sugar producers, and many
others-who knew little and cared less about the goals of their
superiors in Mexico City and Madrid. Through a case study of the
province of Michoacan in western Mexico, Promiscuous Power focuses
on the prosaic agents of colonialism to offer a paradigm-shifting
view of the complexities of making empire at the ground level.
Presenting rowdy, raunchy, and violent life histories from the
archives, Martin Austin Nesvig reveals that the local colonizers of
Michoacan were primarily motivated by personal gain, emboldened by
the lack of oversight from the upper echelons of power, and
thoroughly committed to their own corporate memberships. His
findings challenge some of the most deeply held views of the
Spanish colonization of Mexico, including the Black Legend, which
asserts that the royal state and the institutional church colluded
to produce a powerful Catholicism that crushed heterodoxy, punished
cultural difference, and ruined indigenous worlds. Instead, Nesvig
finds that Michoacan-typical of many frontier provinces of the
empire-became a region of refuge from imperial and juridical
control and formal Catholicism, where the ordinary rules of law,
jurisprudence, and royal oversight collapsed in the entropy of
decentralized rule.
This nuanced book considers the role of religion and religiosity in
modern Mexico, breaking new ground with an emphasis on popular
religion and its relationship to politics. The contributors
highlight the multifaceted role of religion, illuminating the ways
that religion and religious devotion have persisted and changed
since Mexican independence. They explore such themes as the
relationship between church and state, the resurgence of
religiosity and religious societies in the post-reform period, the
religious values of the liberals of the 1850s, and the ways that
popular expressions of religion often trumped formal and universal
proscriptions. Focusing on individual stories and vignettes and on
local elements of religion, the contributors show that despite
efforts to secularize society, religion continues to be a strong
component of Mexican culture. Portraying the complexity of
religiosity in Mexico in the context of an increasingly secular
state, this book will be invaluable for all those interested in
Latin American history and religion. Contributions by: Silvia
Marina Arrom, Adrian Bantjes, Alejandro Cortazar, Jason Dormady,
Martin Austin Nesvig, Matthew D. O'Hara, Daniela Traffano, Paul J.
Vanderwood, Mark Overmyer-Velazquez, Pamela Voekel, and Edward
Wright-Rios
This book is the first comprehensive treatment in English of the
ideology and practice of the Inquisitional censors, focusing on the
case of Mexico from the 1520s to the 1630s. Others have examined
the effects of censorship, but Martin Nesvig employs a
nontraditional approach that focuses on the inner logic of
censorship in order to examine the collective mentality,
ideological formation, and practical application of ideology of the
censors themselves. Â Nesvig shows that censorship was not
only about the regulation of books but about censorship in the
broader sense as a means to regulate Catholic dogma and the content
of religious thought. In Mexico, decisions regarding censorship
involved considerable debate and disagreement among censors,
thereby challenging the idea of the Inquisition as a monolithic
institution. Once adapted to cultural circumstances in Mexico, the
Inquisition and the Index produced not a weapon of intellectual
terror but a flexible apparatus of control. Â
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