Overview
Examines Brazilian social justice and health industries over the past twenty years
Introduces solutions to the current economic and political crisis in Brazil
Highlights a model combining the acquisition of new technologies with social justice, innovation and the right to health
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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, it has simultaneously tended to stimulate local production and invention aimed at reducing deficits in the trade in medicines and medical technologies. The contributors highlight a model combining the acquisition of new technologies with social justice and the right to health, and introduce new concepts of the “nationalization” of technologies, innovation through copying and civil society regulation of industrial property and of the medicinal drug market.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Maurice Cassier is Senior Researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research.
Marilena Correa is Senior Associate Professor at the Institute of Social Medicine-IMS, Brazil.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health Innovation and Social Justice in Brazil
Editors: Maurice Cassier, Marilena Correa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76834-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-76833-5Published: 20 July 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08303-8Published: 22 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-76834-2Published: 10 July 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 281
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development and Social Change, Latin American Politics, Regional Development, Development and Health, Development Theory