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Social Lives of Medicines
Susan Reynolds Whyte
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Paperback. An anthropological study of the social functions and meanings of medicines in different cultures. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology. Num Pages: 212 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC; MB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 32. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology. 212 pages, 12 b/w illus. An anthropological study of the social functions and meanings of medicines in different cultures. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JFC; JHMC; MB. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 13. Weight: 344.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521804691
SKU
V9780521804691
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About Susan Reynolds Whyte
Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen. Sjaak van der Geest is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam. Anita Hardon is Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.
Reviews for Social Lives of Medicines
'… [this] recent volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series [is an] important contribution to the study of medicines, not only for medical anthropologists, but for anybody who wants to understand what medicines do and how they do what they do … This book does a good job of presenting some of the research that has been done, ... Read more