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

By: Series: Experimental futuresPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2017Description: xiv, 328 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9789386392473
  • 9780822363279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: PharmocracyDDC classification:
  • 338.8871 RAJ 23
LOC classification:
  • HD9672.I42 S68 2017
Contents:
Table of Content Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Value, Politics, and Knowledge in the Pharmocracy 1 1. Speculative Values: Pharmaceutical Crisis and Financialized Capital 37 2. Bioethical Values: HPV Vaccines, Public Scandal, and Experimental Subjectivity 62 3. Constitutional Values: The Trials of Gleevec and Judicialized Politics 112 4. Philanthropic Values: Corporate Social Responsibility and Monopoly in the Pharmocracy 157 5. Postcolonial Values: National Industries in Pharmaceutical Empire 193 Conclusion. Constitutions of Health, Responsibility, and Democracy 229 Notes 247 References 301 Index 321
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index.

Table of Content Acknowledgments xi Introduction. Value, Politics, and Knowledge in the Pharmocracy 1 1. Speculative Values: Pharmaceutical Crisis and Financialized Capital 37 2. Bioethical Values: HPV Vaccines, Public Scandal, and Experimental Subjectivity 62 3. Constitutional Values: The Trials of Gleevec and Judicialized Politics 112 4. Philanthropic Values: Corporate Social Responsibility and Monopoly in the Pharmocracy 157 5. Postcolonial Values: National Industries in Pharmaceutical Empire 193 Conclusion. Constitutions of Health, Responsibility, and Democracy 229 Notes 247 References 301 Index 321

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