ISBN:
9780822363279
,
0822363275
,
9780822363132
,
0822363135
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 328 Seiten
,
Diagramme
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24 cm
Series Statement:
Experimental futures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974 - Pharmocracy
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, 1974 - Pharmocracy
DDC:
338.8/8716151
Keywords:
Pharmaceutical industry Management
;
Pharmaceutical industry Economic aspects
;
Pharmaceutical industry
;
Papillomaviruses Vaccination
;
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
;
Indien
;
Biomedizin
;
Pharmazeutische Industrie
;
Multinationales Unternehmen
;
Marktverhalten
;
Norm
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-319) and index
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