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The Blurb On The Back:
The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging examination of this new and growing field, bringing together provocative, multidisciplinary articles to look at the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Ranging far beyond the simple discussion of patients, symptoms, and pills, this reader offers important insights into contemporary cultures of health and illness and the social life of pharmaceuticals.
Drawing on anthropological, historical, and sociological research, it delves into the production, circulation, and consumption of pharmaceuticals. The coverage here is broad and compelling with discussion of topics such as the advent of oral contraceptives, taxonomies of disease, the evolution of prescribing habits, the ethical dimension of pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and drug production in the age of globalisation. Placing a strong focus on context, this collection exposes readers to a variety of approaches, ideas, and frameworks and provides them with an appreciation and understanding of the complex roles pharmaceuticals play in society today.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Sergio Sismondo and Jeremy A Greene have pulled together 17 papers drawing on anthropology, history and sociology to look at the interaction between the pharmaceutical and medical research industries and consumerism in an anthology that’s fascinating and frightening but also very US centric and filled with academic jargon, which makes it quite dense and difficult to get through.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging examination of this new and growing field, bringing together provocative, multidisciplinary articles to look at the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Ranging far beyond the simple discussion of patients, symptoms, and pills, this reader offers important insights into contemporary cultures of health and illness and the social life of pharmaceuticals.
Drawing on anthropological, historical, and sociological research, it delves into the production, circulation, and consumption of pharmaceuticals. The coverage here is broad and compelling with discussion of topics such as the advent of oral contraceptives, taxonomies of disease, the evolution of prescribing habits, the ethical dimension of pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and drug production in the age of globalisation. Placing a strong focus on context, this collection exposes readers to a variety of approaches, ideas, and frameworks and provides them with an appreciation and understanding of the complex roles pharmaceuticals play in society today.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
Sergio Sismondo and Jeremy A Greene have pulled together 17 papers drawing on anthropology, history and sociology to look at the interaction between the pharmaceutical and medical research industries and consumerism in an anthology that’s fascinating and frightening but also very US centric and filled with academic jargon, which makes it quite dense and difficult to get through.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
