Synthesizing Hope: Matter, Knowledge, and Place in South African Drug Discovery

by Anne Pollock

Book Overview

Synthesizing Hope opens up the material and social world of pharmaceuticals by focusing on an unexpected place: iThemba Pharmaceuticals. Founded in 2009 with a name taken from the Zulu word for hope, the small South African startup with an elite international scientific board was tasked with drug discovery for tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria. Anne Pollock uses this company as an entry point for exploring how the location of scientific knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022662918X
• ISBN13: 9780226629186
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"