Places of pharmaceutical knowledge-making: Global health, postcolonial science, and hope in South African drug discovery

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 848-873

  Pollock, Anne ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

global health; pharmaceuticals; postcolonial science; sociotechnical imaginaries; South Africa

Indexed keywords

DRUG DEVELOPMENT; DRUG INDUSTRY; HISTORY; KNOWLEDGE; SOUTH AFRICA;

DRUG DISCOVERY; DRUG INDUSTRY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; KNOWLEDGE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84911864410     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312714543285     Document Type: Article

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