...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... . “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...

... 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...

...-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...

...., 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...

.... The Bioterror- ism Preparedness Act of 2001 created a strategic national pharmaceutical stockpile that has been a windfall for drug companies. The annual replace- ment of drugs with a limited shelf life alone costs hundreds of millions of dollars.33 In July 2003, President Bush signed Project BioShield...

... consumer base with services and goods of all sorts, from the delivery of pharmaceuticals to the on-demand provision of teachers and medical doc- tors (Abílio 2019) and, more recently, mental health professionals as well. This entrepreneurial libidinal economy is traditionally understood to be the product...

... psychology.5 These accounts inculcate a quasi-experimental relation to self by borrowing from specific scientific disciplines and knowledges, combined with television nature documentary–style narrative, brain-imaging techniques, therapeu- tic interventions, and dietary and pharmaceutical...

... research directed by Will Rodman (James Franco), leads the liberation of a large group of nonhuman great apes (chim­ panzees, orangutans, and gorillas) from both Gen Sys, the pharmaceutical company conducting the research, and a municipal primate “shelter” sup­ plying the company with test subjects...

... property relations. Legal mechanisms such as patents and copyrights seek to counter the reproducible nature of biopolitical goods in order to main­ tain private ownership and impose over them a logic of scarcity. Struggles over pharmaceuticals, biopiracy, and the ownership of seeds are only some...

... by ethnic studies. I refer to the way theory in the sciences and social sciences serves the corporate sector (defense industries, pharmaceuticals, agribusiness, etc.) with which the university is inextricably imbricated. In line with my interests in the development of the corporate...