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The felicities of health capital:
[Les félicités du capital en santé]

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  • Catherine Bourgain

    (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7 - CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité)

  • Maurice Cassier

    (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7 - CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité)

  • Jean-Paul Gaudillière

    (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7 - CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité)

  • Pierre-André Juven

    (CERMES3 - UMR 8211 / U988 / UM 7 - CERMES3 - Centre de recherche Médecine, sciences, santé, santé mentale, société - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - INSERM - Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - UPCité - Université Paris Cité)

Abstract

While the term "crisis" has constantly been used since the mid-2000s to describe a financialized pharmaceutical industry speculating on a limited number of innovations of high clinical added value, this article broadens the perspective by considering the pharmaceutical capitalism of the Global North and South in all its diversity. We present a socio-historical analysis of several modes of implementation of these health industries and the felicity conditions of their scientific and financial model. While stressing the importance of the political infrastructures underpinning the construction of markets, and the institutional orders within which the industries exist (and which they help to shape), we show that it is possible to analyse the development of pharmaceutical capitalism in terms of three criteria: the degree of financialization, the forms of intellectual property, and the role of biotechnologies. This analysis calls into question the division between the industrial and innovative North, on the one hand, and the South that has to manage shortages, on the other.

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  • Catherine Bourgain & Maurice Cassier & Jean-Paul Gaudillière & Pierre-André Juven, 2021. "The felicities of health capital: [Les félicités du capital en santé]," Post-Print halshs-03464016, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:halshs-03464016
    DOI: 10.3917/rfse.026.0127
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