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When Nature Goes Public

The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

By: Cori Hayden

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The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

By: Cori Hayden

Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous communities an incentive to preserve their rich biodiversity. But can pharmaceutical profits really advance conservation and indigenous rights? How much should companies pay and to whom? Who stands to gain and lose? The first anthropological study of the practices mobilized in the name and in the shadow of bioprospecting, this book takes us into the unexpected sites where Mexican scientists and American companies venture looking for medicinal plants and local knowledge. Cori Hayden tracks bioprospecting's contentious new promise--and the contradictory activities generated in its name. Focusing on a contract involving Mexico's National Autonomous University, Hayden examines the practices through which researchers, plant vendors, rural collectors, indigenous cooperatives, and other actors put prospecting to work. By paying unique attention to scientific research, she provides a key to understanding which people and plants are included in the promise of "selling biodiversity to save it"--and which are not. And she considers the consequences of linking scientific research and rural "enfranchisement" to the logics of intellectual property. Roving across UN protocols, botanical collecting histories, Mexican nationalist agendas, neoliberal property regimes, and North-South relations, When Nature Goes Public charts the myriad, emergent publics that drive and contest the global market in biodiversity and its futures.

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Princeton University Press

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The Spectacular Generic

Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

By: Cori Hayden

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Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

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In The Spectacular Generic, Cori Hayden examines how generic drugs have transformed public health politics and everyday experiences of pharmaceutical consumption in Latin America. Focusing on the Mexican pharmacy chain Farmacias Similares and its proprietor, Víctor González Torres, Hayden shows how generics have become potent commodities in a postpatent world. In the early 2000s, González Torres, a.k.a. “Dr. Simi,” capitalized on the creation of new markets for generic medicines, selling cheaper copies of leading-brand drugs across Latin America. But Dr. Simi has not simply competed with the transnationals; his enterprise has also come to compete with the Mexican state, reorganizing the provision of medicine and basic health care for millions of people. Hayden juxtaposes this story with Dr. Simi’s less successful efforts in Argentina, where he confronted a radically different configuration of pharmaceutical politics. Building from these diverging trajectories, Hayden illuminates the politics of generic substitution as a question that goes beyond substituting one drug for another. Generic politics can radically reshape the relations among consumers, states, and pharmaceutical markets, even as they have yet to resolve the problems of cost and access.

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Duke University Press

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When Nature Goes Public

The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

By: Cori Hayden

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When Nature Goes Public

The Making and Unmaking of Bioprospecting in Mexico

By: Cori Hayden

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Princeton University Press

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The Spectacular Generic

Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

By: Cori Hayden

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Pharmaceuticals and the Simipolitical in Mexico

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When Nature Goes Public

When Nature Goes Public

The Spectacular Generic

The Spectacular Generic

When Nature Goes Public

When Nature Goes Public

The Spectacular Generic

The Spectacular Generic

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