Reframing Pharma Through Global Health and Social Science

Evidence Ecologies
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-32600-7
Verlag: CRC Press

Buch, Englisch, 186 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Global Science Education

This book explores how pharmaceutical evidence is designed, interpreted, and used, drawing on positivist, constructivist, critical realist, pragmatist, feminist, and decolonial traditions. It shows how dominant evidence paradigms often struggle to account for time, population heterogeneity, patient experience, and context across contemporary therapeutic and care settings.

Rather than treating these dimensions as downstream complications, the book advances an evidence ecology approach—understanding evidence as an interacting system of methods, institutions, and social worlds—and offers
a framework for aligning scientific rigor with access, uptake, and sustained therapeutic impact across diverse settings.

• A conceptual framework showing how different philosophical positions influence evidence creation, interpretation, and governance.
• A practical toolkit for translating those stances into study designs, evaluation metrics, and strategic decision frameworks.
• A bridge between academic reflection and professional application, enabling researchers, policymakers, and industry teams to align evidence with ethics, culture, and context.

Zielgruppe

General, Professional Practice & Development, and Professional Reference

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fagan, Gregory Patrick

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Pharmakologie, Toxikologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Pharmazeutische Technologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Pharmazie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents. Preface: Why Evidence Needs Ecology—Now. Acknowledgments. Introduction: Why Evidence No Longer Travels Well. Chapter 1: The Biomedical Compact: Origins, Power, and Limits. Chapter 2: Reductionism and Evidence Design. Chapter 3: Global Health, Access, and Contextual Fracture. Chapter 4: Real-World Evidence: Promise, Inheritance, and Constraint. Chapter 5: Philosophical Stances in Practice. Chapter 6: Methodological Consequences of Pluralism. Chapter 7: Evidence Ecologies: A Framework for Alignment. Chapter 8: Designing for Coherence: Evidence Architecture in Practice. Chapter 9: Social and Anthropological Foundations of Situated Evidence. Conclusion: Designing Evidence for a World That Learns. Index

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Patrick Fagan, PhD, is a global health researcher whose work examines how pharmaceutical evidence is produced, interpreted, and governed within real-world health systems. Drawing on sociology, medical anthropology, and applied epistemic analysis, he studies how assumptions embedded in evidence design shape regulation, access, and therapeutic uptake across diverse settings. He has held senior roles in global health and rare disease programs and works at the intersection of pharmaceutical development, humanitarian access, and health systems.