Unit 2 - Global health governance and Big Pharma in the age of crisis

Core Reading List


  1. Banerjee, D. (2017) Markets and Molecules: A Pharmaceutical Primer from the South. Medical Anthropology, 36(4): 363-380. Available at: https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/104645 (link)
  2. McMahon, A. (2020) Global equitable access to vaccines, medicines and diagnostics for COVID-19: The role of patents as private governance. Journal of Medical Ethics, 1-7. Available at: https://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2020/11/29/medethics-2020-106795 (link)
  3. Sell, S.K. and Williams, O.D. (2020) Health under capitalism: a global political economy of structural pathogenesis. Review of International Political Economy, 27(1): 1-25. Available at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2019.1659842 (link)