Social lives of medicines
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Social lives of medicines
(Cambridge studies in medical anthropology)
Cambridge University Press, 2002
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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  France
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-193) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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