Living pharmaceutical lives

Living pharmaceutical lives

by Ballantyne, Peri Ryan, Kath

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"Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life. This book is of interest to all those studying and researching social pharmacy and the sociology of health and illness"--

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Title Statements

  • Full title :Living pharmaceutical lives / edited by Peri Ballantyne and Kath Ryan.

Summary

"Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life. This book is of interest to all those studying and researching social pharmacy and the sociology of health and illness"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2021.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780429342868, 0429342861, 9781000383973, 1000383970, 9781000384000, 1000384004
  • DOI:10.4324/9780429342868
  • oclc:on1224583747
  • LC Classification:RM301.25
  • Dewey Decimal:615.1/9

Table of Contents

Introduction : living pharmaceutical lives / Peri J. Ballantyne and Kath Ryan -- Drugs at work : implicated in the making of the neoliberal worker / Peri J. Ballantyne -- Medication-use narratives on the margins : managing type 2 diabetes without medical insurance / Jenny Epstein -- Medicines use for severe asthma : people's perspectives / Daniela Eassey, Lorraine Smith, Kath Ryan and Sharon Davis -- Pregnancy, urinary tract infections and antibiotics : prenatal attachment and competing health priorities / Flavia Ghouri, Amelia Hollywood and Kath Ryan -- "What the medications do is that lovely four-lettered word--hope" : a phenomenological investigation of older people's lived experiences of medication use following cancer diagnosis / Adam Pattison Rathbone -- The paradox of vaccine hesitancy and refusal : public health and the moral work of motherhood / Alison Thompson -- The pharmaceutical imaginary of heart disease : pleasant futures and problematic present / Sofie Rosenlund Lau, Bjarke Oxlund and Anna Birna Almarsdóttir -- A shot in the dark? Ontario girls, informed consent and HPV vaccination / Michele J. McIntosh -- Reflections on the use of antiretroviral treatment among HI…

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