Adriana Petryna / Andrew Lakoff / Arthur Kleinman

Global Pharmaceuticals

Ethics, Markets, Practices
Herausgeber: Petryna, Adriana; Lakoff, Andrew; Kleinman, Arthur

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Produktbeschreibung

Anthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, health, and economics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 165mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 572g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337294
• ISBN-10: 0822337290
• Artikelnr.: 21847955

Autorenporträt

Adriana Petryna is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Fellow, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Andrew Lakoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Among his books are Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine and The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
The Pharmaceutical Nexus / Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman 1
Globalizing Human Subjects Research / Adriana Petryna 33
The New Medical Oikumene / David Healy 61
Educating for Global Mental Health: The Adoption of SSRIs in Japan / Kalman
Applbaum 85
High Contact: Gifts and Surveillance in Argentina / Andrew Lakoff 111
Addiction Markets: The Case of High-Dose Buprenorphine in France / Anne M.
Lovell 136
Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The Register of the Local / Veena Das
and Ranendra K. Das 171
Pharmaceutical Governance / João Biehl 206
Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of Unequal Access in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte,
Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Betty Kyaddondo 240
References 263
Contributors 289
Index 291