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...Kaushik Sunder Rajan In this essay, I explore how the contemporary global terrain of drug development is constituted by different logics of crisis. I explore this terrain through an empirical focus on pharmaceutical logics and politics in the United States and India today, which are constituted...

...—coined in 1957 during a period in the West when a fascination with hallucination-causing agents met with an expanding pharmaceutical industry. The 1950s, in general, were a critical period of medical experimentation that generated new technologies, medicines, and even health-care systems (Healy 2002...

... to Kaushik Sunder Rajan’s “Pharmaceutical Crises and Questions of Value: Terrains and Logics of Global Therapeutic Politics.” He investigates the recent transfor- mation of, and crisis in, the global pharmaceutical industry in ways that elucidate important aspects of the commodification...

... economic questions regarding the cost and distri- 20 bution of ARVs at the very center of the struggle against the pandemic. The major pharmaceutical corporations acknowledged as much by enter- taining questions of the global affordability...

... intellec­ tual property law to recognize the value of the cultural heritage of indige­ nous peoples is one which moves the discussion some distance (though not too far) from copyright. As Western pharmaceutical companies begin searching in earnest for traditional cures which can be transformed through...

... incubation to processing) to pharmaceutical companies specializing in poultry medicine. The Sky Is Falling  395 As Salsbury’s veterinary business was growing in the early twentieth century, land grant colleges in the United States were making...

... as the big C, a cartoonish enemy to be conquered, beaten, fought with high hopes and an unwavering spirit, but in the trenches where medical researchers and clinicians—together with pharmaceutical executives— work, cancer is quickly transforming from something to be cured to some- thing to get...

... Constituent This Way Comes 573 Stanley, Katherine, Emma Dowling, Anna Feigenbaum, and Susan Pell, Occupy London 608 Stavrides, Stavros, Squares in Movement 585 Sunder Rajan, Kaushik, Pharmaceutical Crises and Questions of Value: Terrains and Logics of Global Therapeutic Politics 321 Tadiar, Neferti X. M...

... . “The Membrane and the Diaphragm.” Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities 18 , no. 3 : 49 – 68 . Drucker Peter . 1993 . Postcapitalist Society . New York : HarperBusiness . Dumit Joseph . 2012 . Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health . Durham, NC...

... of prescription. Like other pharmaceuticals in the global health imagination, these pills have been widely celebrated as a miracle fix for the complex problem of maternal mortality associated with unsafe abortion. They can be distributed without major changes to health systems and infrastructures and are thought...

...-contracting in South African Gold Mines.” Journal of Southern African Studies 27 , no. 1 : 5 – 31 . Ecks Stefan . 2008 . “Global Pharmaceutical Markets and Corporate Citizenship: The Case of Novartis' Anti-cancer Drug Glivec.” BioSocieties 3 , no. 2 : 165 – 81 . Farmer Paul...

... of those who can afford them; more pharmaceuticals, which will increase the capital accumulation of pharmaceutical companies, who will pay more experts to make further discoveries that will allow them to produce more pharmaceuticals). Production of knowledge and transformation of understanding could...

... of civilization (such as life-saving pharmaceuticals and human rights regimes, for example) are also powerfully tied to forms of barbarism, not all of which we can realistically call residual (I think here of crippling debt, economic...

... . Edited by Mallet Marie-Louise . Translated by Wills David . New York : Fordham University Press . Dumit Joseph . 2012 . Drugs for Life: How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Dyer-Witheford Nick . 2006 . “Species-Being...

... transformations in contemporary capitalism: that changes are introduced not just by biological, computer, and pharmaceutical technologies but also by governmental technologies, and not just in the pro- duction process but in the sexual and social reproduction process. While production is virtualized...

... to make ALD the focus of research initiatives. And that cir- cumstance makes government, nonprofits, and corporations (especially the pharmaceutical industry) available for scapegoating and for heroism of very different orders...

.... Bela Schick first proved that post-scarlatinal diseases are allergic in nature. Today this important fact is completely accepted in the medical world. It might be assumed that Schick and von Pirquet made a fortune out of their discoveries, with the entire pharmaceutical business world striving...

... trademarks 6o The South Atlantic Quarterly which because of popular usage have entered the language generically and are now disqualified as specific trademarks. Because the Bayer Company popularized its brand name without equally emphasizing the pharmaceutical description acetylsalicylic acid, aspirin lost...

...., pharmaceutical research) and control its outcomes through IP rights and patents. Further, faculty researchers are encouraged to consider profitable, practical applications for their research and to seek additional funding through entrepreneurial platforms The laboratory is increasingly inextricable from...

... these by­ products such as the coal tar industry, the pharmaceutical industry, the fertilizer industry, other chemical industries using sulphate of ammonia, etc. The blast furnace slag may serve as a raw material for the cement industry. The machine industry wants to be near the source of its raw material...