Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine

by Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822363275
• ISBN13: 9780822363279
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"