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 consumptionCovers topics such as the role of drugs in shaping taxonomies of disease, the evolution of prescribing habits, ethical dimensions of pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and drug research and marketing in the age of globalizationOffers a compelling, contextually–rich treatment of the topic that exposes readers to a variety of approaches, ideas, and frameworksProvides an accessible introduction for readers with no previous background in this area INDICE: Acknowledgements.1. Introduction Jeremy Greene and Sergio Sismondo..Pharmaceutical lives2. The pharmaceuticalisation of society? A framework for analysis Simon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe.3. Pharmaceutical witnessing: Drugs for life in an era of direct–to–consumer advertising Joseph Dumit,.New drugs, diseases and identities4. Releasing the flood waters: Diuril and the reshaping of hypertension Jeremy Greene.5. Dep®ession and consum tion: Psychopharmaceuticals, branding, and new identity practices Nathan Greenslit.6. BiDil: Medicating the intersection of race and heart failure Anne Pollock.7. Manufacturing desire: The commodification of female sexual dysfunction Jennifer Fishman.Drugs and the circulation of medical knowledge8. Following the script: How drug reps make friends and influence doctors Adriane Fugh–Berman and Shahram Ahari.9. Getting to yes: Corporate power and the creation of a psychopharmaceutical blockbuster Kalman Applbaum.10. Pushing knowledge in the drug industry: Ghost–managed science Sergio Sismondo.11. Transcultural medicine: A multi–sited ethnography on the scientific–industrial networking of Korean medicine Jongyoung Kim.Political and moral economies of pharmaceutical research12. Uncommon trajectories: steroid hormones, Mexican peasants, and the search for a wild yam Gabriela Soto Laveaga.13. Ready–to–recruit or Ready to consent populations? Informed consent and the limits of subject autonomy Jill Fisher.14. Clinical trials offshored: On private sector science and public health Adriana Petryna.15. The experimental machinery of global clinical trials: Case studies from India Kaushik Sunder Rajan.Intellectual property in local and global markets.16. Intellectual property and public health: Copying of HIV/AIDS drugs by Brazilian public and private pharmaceutical laboratories Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa.17. Global pharmaceutical markets and corporate citizenship: The case of Novartis anti–cancer drug Glivec Stefan Ecks.18. Generic medicines and the question of the similar Cori Hayden
- ISBN: 978-1-118-48883-6
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 296
- Fecha Publicación: 26/03/2015
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés