Kristin Peterson

Speculative Markets

Drug Circuits and Derivative Life in Nigeria

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Kristin Peterson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine. ¿

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 475g
• ISBN-13: 9780822356936
• ISBN-10: 0822356937
• Artikelnr.: 40702903

Autorenporträt

Kristin Peterson

Inhaltsangabe

Preface vii
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction. Chemical Multitudes: Fake Drugs and Pharmaceutical Regulation
in Nigeria 1
1. Idumota: Pharmacists, Traders, and the New Free Market 25
2. Risky Populations: Drug Industry Divestment and Militarized Austerity 53
3. Regulation as a Problem of Discernment: Open Markets in the Making 80
4. Derivative Life: Nominalization and the Logic of the Hustle 103
5. Chemical Arbitrage: A Social Life of Bioequivalence 126
6. Marketing Indefinite Monopolies: Intellectual Property, Debt, and Drug
Geopolitics 155
Conclusion. Old Specters, New Dreams 177
Notes 185
Bibliography 209
Index 233