Generic the unbranding of modern medicine

The same but not the same; What's in a name? Ordering the world of cures ; The generic as critique of the brand -- No such thing as a generic drug? Drugs anonymous ; Origins of a self-effacing industry ; Generic specificity -- The sciences of similarity. Contests of equivalence ; The significan...

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1. Verfasser: Greene, Jeremy A. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Press 2014
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Zusammenfassung:The same but not the same; What's in a name? Ordering the world of cures ; The generic as critique of the brand -- No such thing as a generic drug? Drugs anonymous ; Origins of a self-effacing industry ; Generic specificity -- The sciences of similarity. Contests of equivalence ; The significance of differences -- Laws of substitution. Substitution as vice and virtue ; Universal exchange -- Paradoxes of generic consumption. Liberating the captive consumer ; Generic consumption in the clinic, pharmacy, and supermarket The generic alternative. Science and politics of the "me-too" drug ; Preferred drugs, public and private ; The global generic -- The crisis of similarity.
The same but not the same -- What's in a name? Ordering the world of cures ; The generic as critique of the brand -- No such thing as a generic drug? Drugs anonymous ; Origins of a self-effacing industry ; Generic specificity -- The sciences of similarity. Contests of equivalence ; The significance of differences -- Laws of substitution. Substitution as vice and virtue ; Universal exchange -- Paradoxes of generic consumption. Liberating the captive consumer ; Generic consumption in the clinic, pharmacy, and supermarket The generic alternative. Science and politics of the "me-too" drug ; Preferred drugs, public and private ; The global generic -- The crisis of similarity
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XII, 354 S.
Ill., graph. Darst.
24 cm
ISBN:1421414937
1-4214-1493-7
9781421414935
978-1-4214-1493-5
9781421414942
1421414945