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Pharmocracy : value, politics & knowledge in global biomedicine / Kaushik Sunder Rajan

Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2017

xiv, 328 Seiten : Diagramme ; 24 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index

Erscheint auch als: Pharmocracy / Sunder Rajan, Kaushik (Online-Ausgabe)

Erscheint auch als: Pharmocracy / Sunder Rajan, Kaushik (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-8223-6327-9 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0-8223-6327-5 (pbk. : alk. paper); 978-0-8223-6313-2 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0-8223-6313-5 (hardcover : alk. paper)

978-0-8223-7328-5 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2016035907

OCoLC: 985096044     

OCoLC: 985096044 (aus SWB)     

LC 56000  | LB 85000  | LB 49000  | MS 5500      Ähnliche Literatur

HD9672.I42

338.8/8716151 ; 338.88716151

Basisklassifikation: 44.40 (Pharmazie; Pharmazeutika) ; 83.32 (Wettbewerb) ; 83.67 (Produzierendes Gewerbe)

*Indien ; Biomedizin ; Pharmazeutische Industrie ; Multinationales Unternehmen ; Marktverhalten ; Norm <Ethik>      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Pharmaceutical industry -- Management ; Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects ; Pharmaceutical industry -- India ; Papillomaviruses -- Vaccination -- India -- Case studies ; Pharmaceutical industry -- Management ; Pharmaceutical industry -- Economic aspects ; Pharmaceutical industry -- India ; Papillomaviruses -- Vaccination -- Case studies -- India ; Drug Industry -- ethics ; Politics ; Economics, Pharmaceutical -- ethics ; Social Values

Kaushik Sunder Rajan traces the structure and operation of what he calls pharmocracy-a concept explaining the global hegemony of the multinational pharmaceutical industry. He outlines pharmocracy's logic in two case studies from contemporary India to demonstrate the stakes of its intersection with health, politics, democracy, and global capital