Social Lives of Medicines

Name: Social Lives of Medicines
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ISBN: 9780521804691

ISBN-10: 0521804698

ISBN-13: 9780521804691

Edition: 2003

Authors: Anita Hardon, Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak Van Der Geest, Alan Harwood

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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…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 212
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English




Introduction



An anthropology of materia medica



The Consumers



Mothers and children: the efficacies of drugs



Villagers and local remedies: the symbolic nature of medicines



Women in distress: medicines for control



Sceptical consumers: doubts about medicines



The Providers



Drug vendors and their market: the commodification of health



Pharmacists as doctors: bridging the sectors of health care



Injectionists: the attraction of technology



Prescribing physicians: medicines as communication



The Strategists



Manufacturers: scientific claims, commercial aims



Health planners: making and contesting drug policy



Conclusion



Anthropologists and the sociality of medicines