THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF HEALTH IN FRENCH TERRITORY AND THE GLOBALIZED PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4215/rm2019.e18009

Keywords:

complexo industrial da saúde, circuito espacial produtivo, biomedicamentos, economia política da saúde, França

Abstract

We approach the production of biomedicines in France as a productive spatial circuit. This circuit is part of the health-industrial complex (HIC), a concept that helps to explain the spatial and historical context to analyze the political economy of health care in France. Initially, we justify the use of the concept of the health-industrial complex, rather than the medical-industrial complex, as is commonly used in France and in Anglo-Saxon countries, and its relation to the political economy of health care. Then, we explain why the productive spatial circuit is more appropriate to a geographic approach of this industrial complex than the productive chain. Finally, we deal with the production of biomedicines and, more specifically, the importance of the Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) in the production of this technology to serve
the major pharmaceutical laboratories, favoring the global production of this industrial branch.

Keywords: health industrial complex; productive spatial circuit; biomedicines; political economy of health care; France.

Author Biography

  • Ricardo Mendes Antas Jr., Universidade de São Paulo

    Doutor em Geografia Humana pela Universidade de São Paulo (2002) com um ano de especialização na França - Paris I, Sorbonne (1997-98). Atualmente é professor do Departamento de Geografia da Universidade de São Paulo, na cadeira de Geografia Urbana. Tem experiência na área de Geografia Humana, pesquisando principalmente nos seguintes temas: reestruturação urbana e refuncionalização do espaço, hegemonia corporativa, soberania de Estado, pluralismo jurídico, globalização e circuitos espaciais produtivos e círculos de cooperação do complexo industrial da saúde. É Editor da Revista Geousp: espaço e tempo desde julho de 2013 e Pesquisador do CNPq - Produtividade em Pesquisa desde 2015. Pós-Doutorado no Institut de Hautes Éstudes de l'Amérique Latine, IHEAL, Paris, França com bolsa da Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo em 2018.

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2019-05-21

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Vol. 18 (2019)

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