Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures)
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (742 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0822363275 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 360 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-09-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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The account is a tour de force in the study of bioscience, value, and the nature of power in our times.". As Kaushik Sunder Rajan makes plain, the 'pharmocracy' thus produced is no mere instrument of profit maximization: it also yields complex regimes of governance, knowledge, and ethics that are contested and rendered political in unpredictable, polarizing ways. "This book offers the most incisive, compelling analysis yet of the multinational pharmaceutical industry—of the mechanisms by which health is appropriated by capital, and the empirically distinct ways in which this takes place in different locations across the globe
Sunder Rajan's insights into this dynamic make clear the high stakes of pharmocracy's intersection with health, politics, and democracy.. 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