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.
Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures) download
Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures) book
Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine (Experimental Futures) ebook
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