Pandemics, Pills, and Politics : Governing Global Health Security - Elbe, Stefan, 1975-; Project Muse. (Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018)
Encapsulating security : pharmaceutical defenses against biological danger -- Discovering a virus's achilles heel : flu fighting at molecular scale -- The pill always wins: Gilead Sciences, Roche and the birth of Tamiflu -- What a difference a day makes : the margin call for regulatory agencies -- Virtual blockbuster : bird flu and the pandemic of preparedness planning -- In the eye of the storm : global access, generics and intellectual property -- 'Ode to Tamiflu' : side effects, teenage 'suicides' and corporate liabilities -- Data backlash : Roche and Cochrane square up over clinical trial data -- 'To boldly go ... ' : pharmaceutical enterprises and global health security -- Epilogue : pharmaceuticals, security and molecular life.
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Keywords: Gesundheitspolitik; Sicherheitspolitik; Global Governance; World health; Science and state; Public health -- Social aspects; Medical policy; Influenza -- Research; Influenza -- Prevention; Drugs -- Research; Technology and state; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security; MEDICAL -- Public Health; Politique scientifique et technique; Medicaments -- Recherche; Politique sanitaire; Sante mondiale; Sociologie de la sante; Pharmaceutical Research; Influenza, Human -- drug therapy; Security Measures -- trends; Health Policy; Global Health; Technology and state; Science and state; Drugs -- Research; Influenza -- Prevention; Influenza -- Research; Medical policy; World health; Public health -- Social aspects; Electronic books