The pharmaceutical studies reader

The pharmaceutical studies reader

by Greene, Jeremy A. Sismondo, Sergio

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The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Draws on anthropological, historical, and sociological approaches to explore the social life of pharmaceuticals with special emphasis on their production, circulation, and consumption Covers topics such as the role of drugs in shaping taxonomies of disease,…

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Title Statements

  • Full title :The pharmaceutical studies reader / edited by Sergio Sismondo and Jeremy A. Greene.

Summary

The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Draws on anthropological, historical, and sociological approaches to explore the social life of pharmaceuticals with special emphasis on their production, circulation, and consumption Covers topics such as the role of drugs in shaping taxonomies of disease, the evolution of prescribing habits, ethical dimensions of pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2015.

Publication Statements

  • Publisher(s):Wiley-Blackwell
  • Place of Publication:Chichester, UK
  • Language:eng
  • Publication Date:2015.

The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781118896549, 1118896548, 9781118896716, 1118896718, 1118488830, 9781118488836, 1118490150, 9781118490150
  • oclc:ocn898433577
  • LC Classification:RA401.A3
  • Dewey Decimal:338.4/76151

Table of Contents

The pharmaceuticalisation of society? : a framework for analysis / Simon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe -- Pharmaceutical witnessing : drugs for life in an era of direct-to-consumer advertising / Joseph Dumit -- Releasing the flood waters : Diuril and the reshaping of hypertension / Jeremy Greene -- Depression and consumation : psychopharmaceuticals, branding, and new identity practices / Nathan Greenslit -- BiDil : medicating the intersection of race and heart failure / Anne Pollock -- Manufacturing desire : the commodification of female sexual dysfunction / Jennifer Fishman -- Following the script : how drug reps make friends and influence doctors / Adriane Fugh-Berman and Shahram Ahari -- Getting to yes : corporate power and the creation of a psychopharmaceutical blockbuster / Kalman Applbaum -- Pushing knowledge in the drug industry : ghost-managed science / Sergio Sismondo -- Transcultural medicine : a multi-sited ethnography on the scientific-industrial networking of Korean medicine / Jongyoung Kim -- Uncommon trajectories : steroid hormones, Mexican peasants, and the search for a wild yam / Gabriela Soto Laveaga -- 'Ready-to-recruit' or 'ready to consent' popula…

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Subjects

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries Drug Industry Drugs Industrie pharmaceutique Intellectual property Médicaments Pharmaceutical industry Pharmaceutical Preparations Pharmacy -- Research Propriété intellectuelle Translational Research, Biomedical

Writers

Greene, Jeremy A. Sismondo, Sergio

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