The Racialization of Drug Fakery and Pharmaceutical Markets.
In this article, I show that fake drugs circulate widely in markets that chronically experience non-equilibrium. Moreover, those who manufacture, buy, and sell low priced drugs for African markets are negotiating chronic market volatility and downward pricing pressures that are transnational in scop...
| Publicado en: | Journal of African Cultural Studies Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 344 - 359 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sep2021
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