Jeremy Greene
Le Cermes3 organise une séance exceptionnelle de son
séminaire général à l'occasion du séjour à Paris de notre collègue Jeremy
Greene, professeur d'histoire de la médecine à l'Université Johns Hopkins, et
de la publication de son dernier livre (Generic: The Unbranding of Modern
Medicine.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press).
Le mercredi 24 juin de 14h à 17h
Université Paris Descartes
45 rue des Saint-Pères
75006 Paris
Salle des thèses
Bâtiment Jacob, 5ème étage
Elle portera sur la révolution thérapeutique de la
seconde moitié du XXème siècle, les tensions suscitées par cette
"pharmaceuticalisation" de la santé et le tournant vers la production
et l'usage des médicaments génériques.
The history of generic drugs is a means of exploring
problems of similarity and difference in modern medicine. Generic drugs are never fully identical to the brand name products they
imitate. Rather, their claims to being
‘the same’ lies in proof that they are similar enough in ways that matter to be
functionally interchangeable. As the market for generic substitutes has
grown--from only 10% of the American pharmaceutical market in 1960 to nearly
80% by 2010--so too have epistemological and epidemiological conflicts over how
one can prove that generics are truly equivalent to their brand-name
counterparts. These debates over generic drugs reveal fundamental conflicts
over what it means to practice rational medicine, and what role consumers,
physicians, insurers, and others should have in defining that rationality.
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