2008 Press Releases
Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals - CUP Publication edited by UCC Academics
26.02.2008
"Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Drug Regulation in Ireland in the Global Context" is the title of a book just published by Cork University Press. The editors, Orla O'Donovan and Kathy Glavanis-Grantham, are lecturers in the Departments of Applied Social Studies and Sociology at UCC.
26.02.2008
"Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals: Drug Regulation in Ireland in the Global Context" is the title of a book just published by Cork University Press. The editors, Orla O'Donovan and Kathy Glavanis-Grantham, are lecturers in the Departments of Applied Social Studies and Sociology at UCC.
Public concerns about the regulation of the pharmaceutical industry have intensified in recent years, not least because of a series of controversies about drugs such as those used in the treatment of depression, arthritis, and AIDS. Paradoxically, these concerns centre on the over-consumption of medicines of dubious benefit in Western societies, and lack of access to essential medicines in the Global South.
Central questions that are explored in the book include: what are the implications for health of existing systems of pharmaceutical drug regulation?; and what do existing systems of drug regulation reveal about the power of transnational pharmaceutical corporations to shape regulatory and other policies?
The importance attached to considering the Irish regulatory system in its international context is reflected in the inclusion of chapters that address the implications of World Trade Organisation and EU regulatory policies and regulatory trends in Canada, Britain and Australia.
By demonstrating how the analysis of pharmaceutical drug regulation can provide rich insights into the operation of power in the era of capitalist globalisation, this book challenges the prevailing construction of drug regulation as a sphere of 'policy without politics' and aims to contribute to the imagination of better ways of regulating medicines.
"Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals" is priced at €49 and is available from Cork University Press, http://www.corkuniversitypress.com
649MMcS
Central questions that are explored in the book include: what are the implications for health of existing systems of pharmaceutical drug regulation?; and what do existing systems of drug regulation reveal about the power of transnational pharmaceutical corporations to shape regulatory and other policies?
The importance attached to considering the Irish regulatory system in its international context is reflected in the inclusion of chapters that address the implications of World Trade Organisation and EU regulatory policies and regulatory trends in Canada, Britain and Australia.
By demonstrating how the analysis of pharmaceutical drug regulation can provide rich insights into the operation of power in the era of capitalist globalisation, this book challenges the prevailing construction of drug regulation as a sphere of 'policy without politics' and aims to contribute to the imagination of better ways of regulating medicines.
"Power, Politics and Pharmaceuticals" is priced at €49 and is available from Cork University Press, http://www.corkuniversitypress.com
649MMcS