Health Innovation and Social Justice in Brazil
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: General Introduction -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Copying and Social Medicine -- 3 Local Production and Technology Creation -- 4 Collective Invention -- 5 Instituting Government and Civil Society Regulation of Intellectual Property -- 6 Constructing and Regulating the Generic Drug Market -- 7 An Innovation System in the Making -- 8 Sociology in Action -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Knowledge Generation and Laboratory Capacity Building in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS in Brazil: Experiences on the Development of a Heat-Stable Formulation Comprising Ritonavir -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Choice for Heat-Stable Ritonavir -- 3 The Implementation of the National Technological Consortium -- 3.1 Public Sector Members -- Public Pharmaceutical Laboratories -- 3.2 Private Sector Members -- 4 Steps for Knowledge Generation and Appropriation -- 4.1 Definition of the Analytical Methodology for the Active Principle Ritonavir -- 4.2 Technological Appropriation of the Hot-Melt Extrusion Process -- 4.3 Definition of the Analytical Methodology for Heat-Stable Ritonavir Tablets -- 5 Sources of Information -- 5.1 Codified Information -- 5.2 Non-codified Information -- 6 Conclusions -- 6.1 Technological and Implementation Challenges -- 6.2 Issues Concerning the National Institutional Framework -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Nationalizing Efavirenz: Compulsory Licence, Collective Invention and Neo-Developmentalism in Brazil -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Reverse Engineering and Legal Showdowns (2001-2006) -- 3 From a Compulsory Licence to a System of Collective Invention: The Constitution of the Efavirenz Consortium (2007-) -- 4 Contractual Obligations and the Consortium's Collective Invention Practices.