Making Medicines in Africa: The Political Economy of Industrializing for Local Health
- Submitting institution
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The Open University
- Unit of assessment
- 22 - Anthropology and Development Studies
- Output identifier
- 1452705
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137571335
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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3
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- Yes
- Additional information
- Professor Mackintosh led the design and planning of a global workshop, held in 2014, to develop an edited book that would be both a definitive text on a neglected topic and widely accessible to practitioners and academics across the world. To achieve this, she obtained £10,000 funding support from UNIDO, and raised a further £13,000 to make the book open access. Open Access (OA) academic books were, as Palgrave noted, still fairly new in the book publishing industry at the time; this was the first in Palgrave’s high profile International Political Economy series. Mackintosh also led the launching and global dissemination effort, with particular reference to African readership, resulting in over 80,000 book downloads to date, taking the book into Palgrave’s top five downloaded OA books in 2020. Mackintosh led a very rapid production and editing process, involving 36 authors from 13 countries in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe, ensuring topicality in a fast moving field. She led on three of the fifteen chapters, and led the editorial approach throughout.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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