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SUMMARY:Disputing Distribution: Ethics and pharmaceutical regulation in Ne
 pal - Dr Ian Harper\, Social Anthropology\, University of Edinburgh
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DESCRIPTION:This paper explores the regulation of the pharmaceutical indus
 try - as a question of ethical practice - in the context of Nepal. Specifi
 cally\, it focuses on the release of the Nepal Government’s Department o
 f Drug Administration’s (DDA) Ethical Guidelines in 2007 and the ways in
  which a number of institutions and organisations with vested interests in
  the pharmaceutical industry reacted to this. Drawing on ethnography of th
 e pharmaceutical distribution chain - from producers to retailers\, and ma
 rketers and medical practitioners - it highlights a number of exchange rel
 ations (like companies giving ‘bonuses’ and retailers ‘substituting
 ’ brands on prescriptions\, for example) that are deemed a problem for b
 oth internationally defined\, and state sanctioned\, best ethical practice
 . At stake in this contested domain of ‘ethics’ are struggles over the
  health and wellbeing of the consumers. Yet the introduction of the guidel
 ines seems to have made little difference to practice\, and the paper asks
  why\, in the context of Nepal\, this might be so.
LOCATION:Mond Seminar Room\, Department of Social Anthropology
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