Sunder Rajan Pharmocracy

Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7328-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental Futures

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 with health, politics, democracy, and global capital.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Kaushik Sunder Rajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the author of Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life, also published by Duke University Press.