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Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have
provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare.
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the
multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine,
health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond.
Essays by an international group of contributors take on
intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient
access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and
technologies. The movements of people and resources described here
expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but
they also show how new opportunities have been created for
transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.
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Kristin Peterson
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R374
R310
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In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's
pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson connects multinational
drug company policies, oil concerns, Nigerian political and
economic transitions, the circulation of pharmaceuticals in the
Global South, Wall Street machinations, and the needs and
aspirations of individual Nigerians. Studying the pharmaceutical
market in Lagos, Nigeria, she places local market social norms and
credit and pricing practices in the broader context of regional,
transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains how
a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market
collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal
economic reforms, and she illuminates the relation between that
collapse and the American turn to speculative capital during the
1980s. In the process, she reveals the mutual constitution of
financial speculation in the drug industry and the structural
adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on African nations. Her book
is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation
and "development" as they reverberate across markets and
continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions of
the Lagos pharmaceutical market. Â
In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's
pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson connects multinational
drug company policies, oil concerns, Nigerian political and
economic transitions, the circulation of pharmaceuticals in the
Global South, Wall Street machinations, and the needs and
aspirations of individual Nigerians. Studying the pharmaceutical
market in Lagos, Nigeria, she places local market social norms and
credit and pricing practices in the broader context of regional,
transnational, and global financial capital. Peterson explains how
a significant and formerly profitable African pharmaceutical market
collapsed in the face of U.S. monetary policies and neoliberal
economic reforms, and she illuminates the relation between that
collapse and the American turn to speculative capital during the
1980s. In the process, she reveals the mutual constitution of
financial speculation in the drug industry and the structural
adjustment plans that the IMF imposed on African nations. Her book
is a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation
and "development" as they reverberate across markets and
continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions of
the Lagos pharmaceutical market. Â
Recent political, social, and economic changes in Africa have
provoked radical shifts in the landscape of health and healthcare.
Medicine, Mobility, and Power in Global Africa captures the
multiple dynamics of a globalized world and its impact on medicine,
health, and the delivery of healthcare in Africa--and beyond.
Essays by an international group of contributors take on
intractable problems such as HIV/AIDS, malaria, and insufficient
access to healthcare, drugs, resources, hospitals, and
technologies. The movements of people and resources described here
expose the growing challenges of poverty and public health, but
they also show how new opportunities have been created for
transforming healthcare and promoting care and healing.
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