FRAMEWORK - The Pharmaceutical Industry - Between Molecule and Market, Healing and Harm, System and Story
This framework invites a layered exploration of the pharmaceutical industry, not as a distant system, but as a site of intimate infrastructure. Medicine is often framed as neutral, technical, or benevolent. Here, we pause to ask: How is healing manufactured, distributed, and experienced? What values, contradictions, and histories shape the substances we rely on?
Designed for cross-disciplinary reflection, this guide moves through chemistry, healthcare, regulation, economics, and ethics. It supports learners and facilitators in tracing the pharmaceutical industry’s structure, its global and local impacts, and the emotional and cultural narratives that surround it.
Each chapter blends:
- Scientific scaffolding — grounding inquiry in chemical and biological realities
- Economic structure — surfacing systems of cost, access, and power
- Emotional noticing — inviting reflection on trust, care, and lived experience
This is a framework for questioning, remixing, and co-creating. It’s built to adapt across classrooms, workshops, community spaces, and personal inquiry. Whether you're teaching, facilitating, or simply wondering, you’re invited to explore medicine not just as a product, but as a process, a story, and a system.
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