The Case of Inferred Doability: An Analysis of the Socio-institutional Background of the STAP Cell Scandal
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 123-142
ISSN: 1875-2152
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In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 123-142
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: Social history of medicine, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 609-630
ISSN: 1477-4666
Summary
This paper examines the history of orphan drug policy, from the emergence of 'orphans' in the American pharmaceutical market in the 1960s, through the debates and agitations that resulted in the passage of the US Orphan Drug Act of 1983, to attempts in the 1990s to prevent abuse of that Act and restore its original intentions. Although an increased number of drugs for rare diseases have since been developed and marketed, the extremely high price of some such drugs is considered a major public health issue internationally. The present paper traces the origins of this issue to the market-based approach to resolving the problem of orphan drugs embodied in the 1983 Act. The paper also makes visible an alternative trajectory that existed for a while in the United Kingdom but was eventually abandoned in order to help the biotechnology industry grow in the context of an increasingly integrated European drug market.
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 11, Heft 1, S. 113-117
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 289-292
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: Asian journal of social science, Band 39, Heft 4, S. 558-560
ISSN: 2212-3857
In: BioSocieties: an interdisciplinary journal for social studies of life sciences, Band 11, Heft 2, S. 220-239
ISSN: 1745-8560
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 15, Heft 1, S. 86-96
ISSN: 1875-2152
In: East Asian science, technology and society: an international journal, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 169-176
ISSN: 1875-2152