Pharmocracy Value, politics & knowledge in global biomedicine
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 w...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Durham and London
Duke University Press
2017
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| Series: | Experimental futures: technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 328 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8223-7328-5 |