Compound Solutions: Pharmaceutical Alternatives for Global Health

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An unparalleled, interdisciplinary analysis, Compound Solutions examines Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), which arose early in the twenty-first century to develop new drugs and vaccines for infectious diseases in low-income countries. Here, for the first time, is a sustained examination of PDPs: the work they do, the partnerships they form, their mission, and their underlying philosophy of addressing global health needs

Susan Craddock is professor in the Department of Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies and the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of City of Plagues: Disease, Poverty, and Deviance in San Francisco (Minnesota, 2000) and the coeditor of Influenza and Public Health and HIV and AIDS in Africa.

"Compound Solutions is a thoroughly researched, technically dense, and ambitious text. In her meticulous examination of Product Development Partnerships (PDPs), Susan Craddock provides us with a way to understand how pharmaceutical humanitarianism could save the lives of poor people around the globe. This book will be an essential resource for understanding contemporary global health and the dilemmas of private-public partnering in late capitalism."-Lisa Ann Richey, author of Brand Aid: Shopping Well to Save the World "Susan Craddock's Compound Solutions is a compelling and important book about what she calls 'humanitarian pharmaceutical production.' Anyone interested in the challenges of getting TB drugs where they are needed most should read it." -Bulletin of the History of Medicine