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Speculative markets : drug circuits and derivative life in Nigeria /

In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson gives us a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and ""development"" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterson, Kristin, 1966- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Colección:Experimental futures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: chemical multitudes : fake drugs and pharmaceutical regulation in Nigeria
  • Idumota : pharmacists, traders, and the new free market
  • Risky populations : divestment and militarized austerity
  • Regulation as a problem of discernment : open markets in the making
  • Derivative life : nominalization and the logic of the hustle
  • Chemical arbitrage : a social life of bioequivalence
  • Marketing new monopolies: intellectual property, debt, and drug geopolitics
  • Conclusion: old specters, new dreams.