Tratamentos jurídicos: Os mercados terapêuticos e a judicialização do direito à saúde

Translated title of the contribution: Legal remedies: Therapeutic markets and the judicialization of the right to health

João Biehl, Adriana Petryna

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Abstract

This study draw on the struggle of parents of children with mucopolysacchar idosis to access expensive drugs in the name of universal right to health. The work explores how, in Brazil, right-to-health litigation became an alternative pathway to access health care and shows that several public and private stakeholders dispute the judicialization of health. Biotechnology is, therefore, understood to remake human and social worlds as it opens up new spaces of ethical problematization, desire, and political belonging.

Translated title of the contributionLegal remedies: Therapeutic markets and the judicialization of the right to health
Original languagePortuguese
Pages (from-to)173-192
Number of pages20
JournalHistoria, Ciencias, Saude - Manguinhos
Volume23
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • History and Philosophy of Science

Keywords

  • Biotechnology
  • Brazil
  • Judicialization of health
  • Pharmaceuticalization of health

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