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Quinine, Malaria, and the Cinchona Bureau: Marketing Practices and Knowledge Circulation in a Dutch Transoceanic Cinchona–Quinine Enterprise (1920s–30s) (2016)

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Pharmaceutical industry Medicine Science and economics Quinine Diffusion of innovation; diffusion of knowledge; diffusion of technology Malaria Disease and diseases 20th century, early Netherlands

In this study, we will show how a Dutch pharmaceutical consortium of cinchona producers and quinine manufacturers was able to capitalize on one of the first international public health campaigns to fight malaria, thereby promoting the sale of quinine, an antimalarial medicine. During the 1920s and 1930s, the international markets for quinine were controlled by this Dutch consortium, which was a transoceanic cinchona–quinine enterprise centered in the Cinchona Bureau in the Netherlands. We will argue that during the interwar period, the Cinchona Bureau became the decision-making center of this Dutch cinchona–quinine pharmaceutical enterprise and monopolized the production and trade of an essential medicine. In addition, we will argue that capitalizing on the international public health campaign in the fight against malaria by the Dutch cinchona–quinine enterprise via the Cinchona Bureau can be regarded as an early example of corporate colonization of public health by a private pharmaceutical consortium. Furthermore, we will show how commercial interests prevailed over scientific interests within the Dutch cinchona–quinine consortium, thus interfering with and ultimately curtailing the transoceanic circulation of knowledge in the Dutch empire.

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Authors & Contributors
Aldo De Togni
Verhave, J. P.
Rao, A. V. Rama
Yarrington, Doug
Yang, Timothy
Visscher-Endeveld, Lies
Concepts
Disease and diseases
Medicine
Malaria
Pharmaceutical industry
Quinine
Public health
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
Places
Netherlands
India
Turkey
Germany
Ottoman Empire
Great Britain
Institutions
Merck (E.), firm
Merck & Co.
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