Pharmocracy : Value, Politics, and 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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Pharmazeutische Industrie
Patentrecht
Patenterteilung
Multinationales Unternehmen
Monopol
Humanes Papillomavirus
Forschung und Entwicklung
Biomedizin
Anthropologische Medizin
Pharmaceutical industry > Management.
Pharmaceutical industry > Economic aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
politics.
Valeurs sociales.
Politique.
Papillomavirus > Vaccination > Inde > Études de cas.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Inde.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect economique.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Gestion.
Social Values
Economics, Pharmaceutical > ethics
Politics
Drug Industry > ethics
Social values.
Politics, Practical.
Papillomaviruses > Vaccination > India > Case studies.
Pharmaceutical industry > India.
India.
Case studies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (342 pages).
ISBN:9780822373285

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