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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Colección:Experimental futures.
Temas:
Pharmaceutical industry > Management.
Pharmaceutical industry > Economic aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry > India.
Papillomaviruses > Vaccination > India > Case studies.
Politics, Practical.
Social values.
Drug Industry > ethics
Politics
Economics, Pharmaceutical > ethics
Social Values
Industrie pharmaceutique > Gestion.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Aspect économique.
Industrie pharmaceutique > Inde.
Papillomavirus > Vaccination > Inde > Études de cas.
Politique.
Valeurs sociales.
politics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Pharmaceutical industry.
Anthropologische Medizin
Biomedizin
Forschung und Entwicklung
Humanes Papillomavirus
Monopol
Multinationales Unternehmen
Patenterteilung
Patentrecht
Pharmazeutische Industrie
India.
Case studies.
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 (xiv, 328 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780822373285
0822373289

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