Health Innovation and Social Justice in Brazil

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Cassier, Maurice (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Correa, Marilena (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Economic development.; Social change.; Latin America-Politics and government.; Development and Social Change.; Latin American Politics.; Regional Development.; Development and Health.; Development Theory.

This book examines the construction of an innovation system in Brazil's health industries over the past twenty years. The authors argue that the system has remained active despite the crisis that began in 2014. However, while this crisis has led to cuts in public spending on research and health...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. General Introduction
• 2. Knowledge Generation and Laboratory Capacity Building in the Fight against HIV/AIDS in Brazil: Experiences on the Development of a Heat-Stable Formulation Comprising Ritonavir
• 3. Nationalizing Efavirenz: Compulsory Licence, Collective Invention and Neo-Developmentalism in Brazil
• 4. The Introduction of Nucleic Acid Tests (NAT) for Blood Screening in the Brazilian Public Healthcare System: Negotiating and Assembling Technologies for the Nationalization of 'Nat Brasileiro' (2005-2013)
• 5. The Innovation System for the Leishmaniasis Therapy in Brazil
• 6. A Consortium in Times of Crisis: Producing Brazilian Sofosbuvir? (2014-2017)
• 7. Health Rights and Intellectual Property Rights: Ministry of Health Prior Consent for Pharmaceutical Patents in Brazil
• 8. Polymorph Drug Patents and Their Public Health Impact
• 9. Treatment Activism and Intellectual Property of Drugs in Brazil
• 10. Regulating the Copy Drug Market in Brazil: Testing Generics and Similar Medicines (1999-2015).