9780822363279-0822363275-Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures)

Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures)

ISBN-13: 9780822363279
ISBN-10: 0822363275
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 344 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780822363279
ISBN-10: 0822363275
Edition: Illustrated
Author: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Publication date: 2017
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Format: Paperback 344 pages

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Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures) (ISBN-13: 9780822363279 and ISBN-10: 0822363275), written by authors Kaushik Sunder Rajan, was published by Duke University Press Books in 2017. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Economic Conditions (Economics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Economic Conditions books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $1.86.

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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 Office's denial of a patent for an anticancer drug in 2006 and ensuing legal battles. In each instance health was appropriated by capital and transformed from an embodied state of well-being into an abstract category made subject to capital's interests. These cases demonstrate the precarious situation in which pharmocracy places democracy, as India's accommodation of global pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks pits the interests of its citizens against those of international capital. Sunder Rajan's insights into this dynamic make clear the high stakes of pharmocracy's intersection with health, politics, and democracy.

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