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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460107703321

Titolo

The pharmaceutical studies reader / / edited by Sergio Sismondo and Jeremy A. Greene

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-118-48883-0

1-118-89654-8

1-118-89671-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Readers in Anthropology ; ; 11

Disciplina

338.4/76151

Soggetti

Pharmaceutical industry

Pharmacy - Research

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

The pharmaceuticalisation of society? : a framework for analysis / Simon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe -- Pharmaceutical witnessing : drugs for life in an era of direct-to-consumer advertising / Joseph Dumit -- Releasing the flood waters : Diuril and the reshaping of hypertension / Jeremy Greene -- Depression and consumation : psychopharmaceuticals, branding, and new identity practices / Nathan Greenslit -- BiDil : medicating the intersection of race and heart failure / Anne Pollock -- Manufacturing desire : the commodification of female sexual dysfunction / Jennifer Fishman -- Following the script : how drug reps make friends and influence doctors / Adriane Fugh-Berman and Shahram Ahari -- Getting to yes : corporate power and the creation of a psychopharmaceutical blockbuster / Kalman Applbaum -- Pushing knowledge in the drug industry : ghost-managed science / Sergio Sismondo -- Transcultural medicine : a multi-sited ethnography on the scientific-industrial networking of Korean medicine / Jongyoung Kim -- Uncommon trajectories : steroid hormones, Mexican peasants, and the search for a wild yam / Gabriela Soto Laveaga -- 'Ready-to-



recruit' or 'ready to consent' populations : informed consent and the limits of subject autonomy / Jill Fisher -- Clinical trials offshored : on private sector science and public health / Adriana Petryna -- The experimental machinery of global clinical trials : case studies from India / Kaushik Sunder Rajan -- Intellectual property and public health : copying of HIV/AIDS drugs by Brazilian public and private pharmaceutical laboratories / Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa -- Global pharmaceutical markets and corporate citizenship : the case of Novartis : anti-cancer drug Glivec / Stefan Ecks -- Generic medicines and the question of the similar / Cori Hayden.

Sommario/riassunto

The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Draws on anthropological, historical, and sociological approaches to explore the social life of pharmaceuticals with special emphasis on their production, circulation, and consumption Covers topics such as the role of drugs in shaping taxonomies of disease, the evolution of prescribing habits, ethical dimensions of pharmaceuticals, clinical trials, and drug



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Record Nr.

UNISA996389726403316

Titolo

Medivs. of the whole psalmes in foure partes [[electronic resource] ] : whiche may be song to al musicall instrumentes, set forth for the encrease of vertue: and abolishyng of other vayne and triflyng ballades

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Imprinted at London, : by Iohn Day, dwelling ouer Aldersgate, beneath Saynt Martyns. Cum gratia et priuilegio Regiæ Maiestatis. per septennium, 1563

Descrizione fisica

[2] p.; p. 71-72, 75-78, 145-146 : ill. (woodcuts), music

Altri autori (Persone)

SternholdThomas <d. 1549.>

HopkinsJohn <d. 1570.>

Soggetti

Psalms (Music)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Item at A3:2[2] bound out of order including t.p., p. 71-72, 75-78, 145-146 of Medius only.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018