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Pharmocracy
Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
Taschenbuch von Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Sprache: Englisch

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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 Office's denial of a patent for an anticancer drug in 2006 and ensuing legal battles. In each instance health was appropriated by capital and transformed from an embodied state of well-being into an abstract category made subject to capital's interests. These cases demonstrate the precarious situation in which pharmocracy places democracy, as India's accommodation of global pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks pits the interests of its citizens against those of international capital. 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 Indian Patent Office's denial of a patent for an anticancer drug in 2006 and ensuing legal battles. In each instance health was appropriated by capital and transformed from an embodied state of well-being into an abstract category made subject to capital's interests. These cases demonstrate the precarious situation in which pharmocracy places democracy, as India's accommodation of global pharmaceutical regulatory frameworks pits the interests of its citizens against those of international capital. Sunder Rajan's insights into this dynamic make clear the high stakes of pharmocracy's intersection with health, politics, and democracy.
Über den Autor
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.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822363279
ISBN-10: 0822363275
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 103775804
Über den Autor
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.
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
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Rubrik: Sozialwissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780822363279
ISBN-10: 0822363275
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Sunder Rajan, Kaushik
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Erscheinungsdatum: 03.03.2017
Gewicht: 0,499 kg
Artikel-ID: 103775804
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