Unstable pharmaceutical values: the grey political economy of drug circulation in Cambodia

This paper uses the circulation of drugs as a port of entry to understanding the fabric of pharmaceutical values. As they circulate, pharmaceuticals encounter a plurality of worlds ranging from the global spheres of transnational transactions to situated localities and their specific realities. A ne...

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Published in:	BioSocieties 2021-09, Vol.16 (3), p.342-362
Main Author:	Pordié, Laurent
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Subjects:	Aesthetics Consumers Corruption Drug industry Drugs Efficacy Epistemology Humanities and Social Sciences Merchants Middlemen Money Original Article Pharmaceuticals Political economy Prescription drugs Social Anthropology and ethnology Social Sciences Toxicity Transactions Valuation Value
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