Description: 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.
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EAN: 9780822363132
UPC: 9780822363132
ISBN: 9780822363132
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Book Title: Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Glo
Item Length: 23.4 cm
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Anthropology, History
Publication Year: 2017
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 590 g
Author: Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Experimental Futures
Format: Hardcover
