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Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
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Description for Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
Paperback. 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. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 360 pages, 1 illustration. BIC Classification: 1FK; HBJF; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 228 x 26. Weight in Grams: 510.
Continuing his pioneering theoretical explorations into the relationships among biosciences, the market, and political economy, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of pharmocracy to explain the structure and operation of the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He reveals pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India: the controversial introduction of an HPV vaccine in 2010, and the Indian Patent Office's denial of a patent for an anticancer drug in 2006 and ensuing legal battles. In each instance health was appropriated by capital and transformed from an embodied state of well-being into an abstract category made subject to ... Read more
Continuing his pioneering theoretical explorations into the relationships among biosciences, the market, and political economy, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of pharmocracy to explain the structure and operation of the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He reveals pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India: the controversial introduction of an HPV vaccine in 2010, and the Indian Patent Office's denial of a patent for an anticancer drug in 2006 and ensuing legal battles. In each instance health was appropriated by capital and transformed from an embodied state of well-being into an abstract category made subject to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Experimental Futures
Condition
New
Weight
510g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822363279
SKU
V9780822363279
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About Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews for Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
Pharmocracy is an important discussion of events involving the Indian government, pharmaceutical companies-Indian and multinational-and civil society organizations. . . . A valuable addition to the social science of global medicine, its political economy, and its limitations.
Roger Jeffery
American Journal of Sociology
Presents an impressively holistic view of the world. . . . There ... Read more
Roger Jeffery
American Journal of Sociology
Presents an impressively holistic view of the world. . . . There ... Read more