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Pharmocracy

Autor Kaushik Sunder Rajan
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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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822363132
ISBN-10: 0822363135
Pagini: 344
Ilustrații: 1 illustration
Dimensiuni: 164 x 237 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

Cuprins

Acknowledgments  xi

Introduction. Value, Politics, and Knowledge in the Pharmocracy  1

1. Speculative Values: Pharmaceutical Crisis and Financialized Capital  37

2. Bioethical Values: HPV Vaccines, Public Scandal, and Experimental Subjectivity  62

3. Constitutional Values: The Trials of Gleevec and Judicialized Politics  112

4. Philanthropic Values: Corporate Social Responsibility and Monopoly in the Pharmocracy  157

5. Postcolonial Values: National Industries in Pharmaceutical Empire  193

Conclusion. Constitutions of Health, Responsibility, and Democracy  229

Notes  247

References  301

Index  321