UPC: 9781421425580 | Pandemics Pills and Politics : Governing Global Health Security (Paperback)

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At the heart of this issue Elbe argues lies something deeper: the rise of a new molecular vision of life that is reshaping the world we live in. The fascinating story of Tamiflu s development and stockpiling against global health threats.orld s most prominent medical countermeasure Tamiflu. A pill can strengthen national security? The suggestion may seem odd but many states around the world believe precisely that. Confronted with pandemics bioterrorism and emerging infectious diseases governments are transforming their security policies to include the proactive development acquisition stockpiling and mass distribution of new pharmaceutical defenses. What happens–politically economically and socially–when governments try to protect their populations with pharmaceuticals? How do competing interests among states pharmaceutical companies regulators and scientists play out in the quest to develop new medical countermeasures? And do citizens around the world ultimately stand to gain or lose from this pharmaceuticalization of security policy? Stefan Elbe explores these complex questions in Pandemics Pills and Politics the first in-depth study of the world s most prominent medical countermeasure Tamiflu. Taken by millions of people around the planet in the fight against pandemic flu Tamiflu has provoked suspicions about undue commercial influence in government decision-making about stockpiles. It even found itself at the center of a prolonged political battle over who should have access to the data about the safety and effectiveness of medicines. Pandemics Pills and Politics shows that the story of Tamiflu harbors deeper lessons about the vexing political economic legal social and regulatory tensions that emerge as twenty-first-century security policy takes a pharmaceutical turn. At the heart of this issue Elbe argues lies something deeper: the rise of a new molecular vision of life that is reshaping the world we live in.