Pharmocracy: Value, Politics, and Knowledge in Global Biomedicine

Author/Contributor(s):	Sunder Rajan, Kaushik
Publisher:	Duke University Press
Date:	03/03/2017
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.