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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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