Social Lives of Medicines

AvSusan Reynolds Whyte,Sjaak van der Geest

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

Medicines are the core of treatment in biomedicine, as in many other medical traditions. As material things, they have social as well as pharmacological lives, with people and between people. They are tokens of healing and hope, as well as valuable commodities. Each chapter of this book shows drugs in the hands of particular actors: mothers in Manila, villagers in Burkina Faso, women in the Netherlands, consumers in London, market traders in Cameroon, pharmacists in Mexico, injectionists in Uganda, doctors in Sri Lanka, industrialists in India, and policymakers in Geneva. Each example is used to explore a different problem in the study of medicines, such as social efficacy, experiences of control, skepticism and cultural politics, commodification of health, the attraction of technology and the marketing of images and values. The book shows how anthropologists deal with the sociality of medicines, through their ethnography, their theorizing, and their uses of knowledge.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-01-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:338 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9780521804691

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medicin: allmänt inom Medicin

Mer om författaren

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen. Sjaak van der Geest is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. Anita Hardon is Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.

Recensioner i media

'… [this] recent volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series [is an] important contribution to the study of medicines, not only for medical anthropologists, but for anybody who wants to understand what medicines do and how they do what they do … This book does a good job of presenting some of the research that has been done, and makes a persuasive plea for more anthropological and public health attention to this area.' Journal of Biosocial Science

Innehållsförteckning

Part I. Introduction: 1. An anthropology of materia medica; Part II. The Consumers: 2. Mothers and children: the efficacies of drugs; 3. Villagers and local remedies: the symbolic nature of medicines; 4. Women in distress: medicines for control; 5. Sceptical consumers: doubts about medicines; Part III. The Providers: 6. Drug vendors and their market: the commodification of health; 7. Pharmacists as doctors: bridging the sectors of health care; 8. Injectionists: the attraction of technology; 9. Prescribing physicians: medicines as communication; Part IV. The Strategists: 10. Manufacturers: scientific claims, commercial aims; 11. Health planners: making and contesting drug policy; Part V. Conclusion: 12. Anthropologists and the sociality of medicines.