[Sci-tech-public] Tomorrow, Wed, 12/16: MIT STS Special Seminar with Dwai Banerjee, Dartmouth College

[Gus Zahariadis]

Dwai Banerjee, Dartmouth College

Wednesday, December 16

4pm – E51-095

“Markets and molecules: biopharmaceutical rights in the global south”

The Indian pharmaceutical industry has historically manufactured low-cost drugs for the global poor.  In this talk, I show how as new drug access controversies in India focus on biopharmaceutical therapies, they reveal new flows of international capital, emergent genetic technologies, and increasingly coercive trade regimes that together favor multi-national corporate oligopolies.  In turn, the rise of such oligopolies imperils the future availability of essential life-saving drugs for the work of global public health.  My aim here is to demonstrate how the future of the right to drug access rests uneasily, and potentially calamitously, in a shifting balance of power between global south interests and Euro-American pharmaceutical capital.

BIO: Dwaipayan Banerjee holds a Ph.D from the Department of Anthropology at NYU and is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Dartmouth College.  His book manuscript - Keeping Time: Cancer and Pain in Contemporary India - concerns the political life of cancer in the public health world.  His research interests include the politics of health, science and technology in the global south.



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Gus Zahariadis
Assistant to the Director
Program in Science, Technology, and Society

T: (617) 253-3452
F: (617) 258-8118




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