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Accepted Paper:
Discursive histories of counterfeit medicines and their adoption into legal instruments
Shalini Rudra
(University of Warwick)
Paper short abstract:
The role pharmaceuticals play in saving lives is well known. However, the role pharmaceuticals play in making and breaking the career of various policy forums is less-known. This paper uses discourse around fakeness to understand how legal instruments advance and strengthen irrational fears.
Paper long abstract:
The legal response to counterfeit medicines is not bereft of politics serving the interests of certain groups. However, debunking such politics is unyielding and requires engaging with the narrative on fakeness which lends itself to scrutiny. Therefore using the discipline of history, this paper problematises the rise and deployment of ‘uncertainty’ surrounding fake medicines into certain legal response to counterfeit medicines and finds that a rich analysis emerge on how scientific and/or academic knowledge becomes complacent in such politics.