Pharmaceuticals and Society Pharmaceuticals and Society

Critical Discourses and Debates Critical Discourses and Debates
Herausgeber: Williams, Simon J; Davis, Peter; Gabe, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on the latest international sociological research, this monograph takes a critical look at contemporary developments, discourses and debate on pharmaceuticals and society. Key issues covered include: * Pharmaceuticals and medicalisation * The science and politics of drug development, testing and regulation * Constructions of pharmaceuticals in professional and popular culture * The meaning and use of medications in everyday life * Pharmaceuticals, consumerism and citizenship * Innovation and expectations regarding pharmaceutical futures * Pharmaceuticals and the Internet Written in a lively, accessible style, with many engaging and important insights from key international figures in the field, this timely and topical monograph will appeal to a truly interdisciplinary audience of students, academics, researchers, professionals, practitioners and policy makers with an in interest in pharmaceuticals and society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 256g
• ISBN-13: 9781405190848
• ISBN-10: 1405190841
• Artikelnr.: 25887718

Autorenporträt

Simon J. Williams teaches the Sociology of Health and Illness with particular reference to the body, health and social research methods at Warwick University. Jonathan Gabe is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Health and Social Care at Royal Holloway, University of London. Peter Davis is Professor, Sociology of Health and Well-Being, at the University of Auckland.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The sociology of pharmaceuticals: progress and prospects: Simon J.
Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Peter Davis.
2. From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra: direct-to-consumer advertising and
medicalisation: Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter.
3. Waking up to sleepiness: Modafinil, the media and the
pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life: Simon J. Williams, Clive
Seale, Sharon Boden, Pam Lowe and Deborah Lynn Steinberg.
4. Pharma in the bedroom . . . and the kitchen. . . . The
pharmaceuticalisation of daily life: Nick J. Fox and Katie J. Ward.
5. Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation: a realist
empirical research programme: John Abraham.
6. Sex, drugs, and politics: the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer: Monica J.
Casper and Laura M. Carpenter.
7. New forms of citizenship and socio-political inclusion: accessing
antiretroviral therapy in a Rio de Janeiro favela: Fabian Cataldo.
8. Over-the-counter medicines: professional expertise and consumer
discourses: Fiona A. Stevenson, Miranda Leontowitsch and Catherine Duggan.
9. In whose interest? Relationships between health consumer groups and the
pharmaceutical industry in the UK: Kathryn Jones.
10. The great ambivalence: factors likely to affect service user and public
acceptability of the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant medication: Michael
Barr and Diana Rose.
11. Shifting paradigms? Reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic
stem cells and pharmaceuticals: Steven P. Wainwright, Mike Michael and
Clare Williams.
Index.

Rezensionen

?Well researched and easily digestible, this book is recommendedfor anyone wishing to gain further understanding of the interplaybetween pharmaceuticals and society.? (PharmaceuticalJournal , November 2009)