Pharmocracy : value, politics, & knowledge in global biomedicine / Kaushik Sunder Rajan.

  • Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974-
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2017
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Value, politics, and knowledge in global biomedicine

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Kaushik Sunder Rajan traces the structure and operation of what he calls pharmocracy-a concept explaining the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He outlines pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India to demonstrate the stakes of its intersection with health, politics, democracy, and global capital.--Publisher description.

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Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

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xiv, 328 pages ; 24 cm.

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Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.

Contents

Speculative values : pharmaceutical crisis and financialized capital -- Bioethical values : HPV vaccines, public scandal, and experimental subjectivity -- Constitutional values : the trials of Gleevec and judicialized politics -- Philanthropic values : corporate social responsibility and monopoly in the pharmocracy.

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    History of Medicine
    IH.UM.23
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  • 9780822363132
  • 0822363135
  • 9780822363279
  • 0822363275