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Author Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- author.

Title Pharmocracy : value, politics & knowledge in global biomedicine / Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2017
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 328 pages)
Series Experimental futures
Experimental futures.
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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Pharmaceutical industry -- Management
Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects
Pharmaceutical industry -- India
Papillomaviruses -- Vaccination -- India -- Case studies
Politics, Practical.
Social values.
Drug Industry -- ethics
Politics
Economics, Pharmaceutical -- ethics
Social Values
politics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Social values
Politics, Practical
Pharmaceutical industry
Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects
Pharmaceutical industry -- Management
Anthropologische Medizin
Biomedizin
Forschung und Entwicklung
Humanes Papillomavirus
Monopol
Multinationales Unternehmen
Patenterteilung
Patentrecht
Pharmazeutische Industrie
India
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2016037764
ISBN 9780822373285
0822373289