I just received the abstract for tomorrow's STS colloquium from
Kaushik Sunder Rajan and wanted to share it with you:
Abstract
In this talk, I am interested in the articulations between clinical
research, biomedical epistemology, pharmaceutical development and
property regimes, in a historical conjuncture in India that is marked
simultaneously by attempts at global commensuration on the one hand,
and the emergence of particular national legal and political
trajectories on the other. I focus on the case of a new institutional
cluster for translational research, Translational Health Science and
Technology Institute (THSTI), which is being set up in India in
collaboration with MIT. I situate this case against other situations,
concerning the globalization of clinical trials and of intellectual
property regimes in drug development, in order to trace the various
logics of the global biomedical economy. Some of these logics, I
suggest, are potentially about the establishment and expansion of
monopoly capitalism, and are in tension with other logics that are
more experimental and open-ended. Hence, the paper traces how
emergent technoscientific and institutional forms of biomedicine are
being established and contested in the Indian context, and what law,
capital, ideology and epistemology have to do with these forms.
STS Colloquium
Monday, April 27
Translational and Transnational Transformations in Indian Biomedicine
Kaushik Sunder Rajan
Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
Please join us on Monday, April 27, for the final talk in our spring
series on Science and Technology in Africa, Asia, and
Beyond. Kaushik Sunder Rajan was initially trained as a
biologist. He obtained his Ph.D. from MIT in the History and Social
Studies of Science and Technology (now known as HASTS), and works on
the anthropology of science and technology. He is the author of
Biocapital: The Constitution of Postgenomic Life (Duke University Press, 2006).
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