Pharmocracy : value, politics, and knowledge in global biomedicine / Kaushik Sunder Rajan.

Author/Creator:

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- author.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Series:

Experimental futures.
Experimental futures

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (345 pages).

Subjects:

Pharmaceutical industry -- Management.
Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects.
Pharmaceutical industry -- India.
Papillomaviruses -- Vaccination -- India -- Case studies.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8223-6327-5

OCLC:

1002906434

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