Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine

(Part of the Experimental Futures Series)

by Kaushik Sunder Rajan

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Continuing his pioneering theoretical explorations into the relationships among biosciences, the market, and political economy, Kaushik Sunder Rajan introduces the concept of pharmocracy to explain the structure and operation of the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He reveals pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India: the controversial introduction of an HPV vaccine in 2010, and the Indian Patent...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0822363275

ISBN13:9780822363279

Release Date:March 2017

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:344 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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