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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2017.
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Colección: | Experimental futures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Speculative values : pharmaceutical crisis and financialized capital
- Bioethical values : HPV vaccines, public scandal, and experimental subjectivity
- Constitutional values : the trials of Gleevec and judicialized politics
- Philanthropic values : corporate social responsibility and monopoly in the pharmocracy.