Reiko Kanazawa
Biographic Data
| ID | 5236124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reiko Kanazawa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Kanazawa |
| SIGNATURE | KANAZAWA R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nagoya University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1666-4314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The politics of medical expertise and substance control
This paper explores the role of World Health Organization (WHO) medical experts in ambitious projects for substance control during the Cold War in Thailand and India. The circumstances surrounding opium production in these two nations were very different, as were the reasons for requesting expert assistance from the United Nations. Whereas the Thai military regime was concerned with controlling illicit traffic to secure its borders, the Indian go…
Pandemic Responses and the Strengths of Health Systems
This paper surveys the historiography of the global response to HIV/AIDS. Since 1981, when the disease was first identified, there have been great strides in the medical and biological sciences in understanding the impact of the new virus on the human immune system. Although there is still no successful vaccine, antiretroviral (ART) treatment continues to improve the likelihood of HIV-positive people living long and healthy lives. We have also se…
Governing Drugs Globally
This article charts the public health argument in international drug control through the activities of the World Health Organization (WHO), an underaddressed actor in histories of global drug policy. From the postwar period to the 1980s, the aims of international drug control and international health became deeply interlinked. This realization dawned slowly on both WHO and United Nations drug agencies as they faced complex and urgent problems wit…
Sandra Bärnreuther, Substantial Relations
A historical and anthropological examination of fertility or invitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in India, Substantial Relations makes a valuable contribution to emerging scholarship that untangles the complex legacies of reproduction and biomedicine in globalising, liberalising and commercialising India. The first half of the book depicts how the country developed its own thriving industry serving domestic and global markets. Chapter one begin…
Pricing Retrovir
In spring 1987, British pharmaceutical company Wellcome PLC released azidothymidine (AZT) sold under trade name Retrovir, the first successful treatment for AIDS. In the context of a global public health emergency and with no competing products, Wellcome invested heavily in upfront costs to bring Retrovir to market, reflected in the original launch price of $188 (US dollars), applied to all other markets. Retrovir subsequently faced backlash in t…
Positioning Aids Activism in India
This article brings histories of medical activism in conversation with studies of international development to understand Ford Foundation-supported AIDS non-governmental organisations in India. While there were organisations with far-reaching visions for change through the voluntary sector, the article argues that the advocacy, caught between political critique and service delivery, was ultimately awkward and ambiguous. It demonstrates this by fo…
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Positioning Aids Activism in India
This article brings histories of medical activism in conversation with studies of international development to understand Ford Foundation-supported AIDS non-governmental organisations in India. While there were organisations with far-reaching visions for change through the voluntary sector, the article argues that the advocacy, caught between political critique and service delivery, was ultimately awkward and ambiguous. It demonstrates this by fo…
Governing Drugs Globally
This article charts the public health argument in international drug control through the activities of the World Health Organization (WHO), an underaddressed actor in histories of global drug policy. From the postwar period to the 1980s, the aims of international drug control and international health became deeply interlinked. This realization dawned slowly on both WHO and United Nations drug agencies as they faced complex and urgent problems wit…
Sandra Bärnreuther, Substantial Relations
A historical and anthropological examination of fertility or invitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment in India, Substantial Relations makes a valuable contribution to emerging scholarship that untangles the complex legacies of reproduction and biomedicine in globalising, liberalising and commercialising India. The first half of the book depicts how the country developed its own thriving industry serving domestic and global markets. Chapter one begin…
Pricing Retrovir
In spring 1987, British pharmaceutical company Wellcome PLC released azidothymidine (AZT) sold under trade name Retrovir, the first successful treatment for AIDS. In the context of a global public health emergency and with no competing products, Wellcome invested heavily in upfront costs to bring Retrovir to market, reflected in the original launch price of $188 (US dollars), applied to all other markets. Retrovir subsequently faced backlash in t…
Pandemic Responses and the Strengths of Health Systems
This paper surveys the historiography of the global response to HIV/AIDS. Since 1981, when the disease was first identified, there have been great strides in the medical and biological sciences in understanding the impact of the new virus on the human immune system. Although there is still no successful vaccine, antiretroviral (ART) treatment continues to improve the likelihood of HIV-positive people living long and healthy lives. We have also se…
The politics of medical expertise and substance control
This paper explores the role of World Health Organization (WHO) medical experts in ambitious projects for substance control during the Cold War in Thailand and India. The circumstances surrounding opium production in these two nations were very different, as were the reasons for requesting expert assistance from the United Nations. Whereas the Thai military regime was concerned with controlling illicit traffic to secure its borders, the Indian go…
Political science (5 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Conversation (2 works)