Dumit Drugs for Life

How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9348-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures

Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dumit, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Präventivmedizin, Gesundheitsförderung, Medizinisches Screening

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

List of Illustrations xi

Introduction 1

1. Responding to Facts 27

2. Pharmaceutical Witnessing and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising 55

3. Having to Grow Medicine 87

4. Mass Health: Illness Is a Line You Cross 105

5. Moving the Lines: Deciding on Thresholds 135

6. Knowing Your Numbers: Pharmaceutical Lifestyles 181

Conclusion. Living in a World of Surplus Health: Frequently Asked Questions 197

Notes 219

References 239

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Dumit is Director of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity and editor, with Regula Valérie Burri, of Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life.