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Speculative markets : drug circuits and derivative life in Nigeria / Kristin Peterson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peterson, Kristin, 1966-
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical industry--Nigeria.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Free enterprise--Nigeria.
- Free enterprise.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (255 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>In this unprecedented account of the dynamics of Nigeria's pharmaceutical markets, Kristin Peterson gives us a sobering ethnographic analysis of the effects of speculation and ""development"" as they reverberate across markets and continents, and play out in everyday interpersonal transactions.</div>
- Contents:
- Introduction: chemical multitudes : fake drugs and pharmaceutical regulation in Nigeria
- Idumota : pharmacists, traders, and the new free market
- Risky populations : divestment and militarized austerity
- Regulation as a problem of discernment : open markets in the making
- Derivative life : nominalization and the logic of the hustle
- Chemical arbitrage : a social life of bioequivalence
- Marketing new monopolies: intellectual property, debt, and drug geopolitics
- Conclusion: old specters, new dreams.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822357025
- 082235702X
- 9780822376477
- 0822376474
- OCLC:
- 885123838
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