Drugs' stories and itineraries. On the making of Asian industrial medicines

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Acknowledgements

We thank the contributors to this special issue for their insightful papers, and Takeo David Hymans for his editorial support in finalizing this introduction. The Panel at the Fifth International Conference on the Pharmaceutical Life Cycle held in Driebergen, the Netherlands, in September 2013 was co-funded by the Social Science and Global Health Research Priority Area of the University of Amsterdam and by Cermes3 (CNRS/EHESS/Inserm) in Paris. Anita Hardon has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant for her research program on ChemicalYouth (2012, Grant number 323646), which includes research on the itineraries of popular Asian medicines (marketing/branding project).

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