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This forward-looking book provides an in-depth analysis of the
major transformations of the right to health in Latin America over
the past decades, marked by the turn towards the
pharmaceuticalisation of health care. Everaldo Lamprea-Montealegre
investigates how health-based litigation has deepened inequalities
in the global South, exploring the practices of key actors that are
reclaiming the right to health in the region. Taking a deep dive
into the health care systems of Brazil and Colombia, Local
Maladies, Global Remedies illustrates how transnational
pharmaceutical companies are influencing the litigation of health
rights, from moulding doctors' preferences for branded drugs to
controlling the availability of cheaper generics and bio-similars.
The book deploys a wide range of theoretical perspectives and
insights from socio-legal literature to map out the practices of
stakeholders that are reclaiming the right to health in Latin
America. Its concluding remarks propose a set of remedies to help
alleviate the challenges faced by global South countries when
trying to guarantee their population's right to health, ultimately
calling for a major shift of decision-making responsibilities from
a local to a global level. The wide-ranging, interdisciplinary
scope of this cutting-edge book will benefit scholars,
practitioners, policymakers, and students operating at the
intersections between socio-legal studies, sociology, health
anthropology, public health, globalisation, and human rights.
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