Petryna / Kleinman / Lakoff Global Pharmaceuticals

Ethics, Markets, Practices
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8791-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Anthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, health, and economics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Petryna, Adriana

Kleinman, Arthur

Lakoff, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Fertigungsindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

The Pharmaceutical Nexus / Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman 1

Globalizing Human Subjects Research / Adriana Petryna 33

The New Medical Oikumene / David Healy 61

Educating for Global Mental Health: The Adoption of SSRIs in Japan / Kalman Applbaum 85

High Contact: Gifts and Surveillance in Argentina / Andrew Lakoff 111

Addiction Markets: The Case of High-Dose Buprenorphine in France / Anne M. Lovell 136

Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The Register of the Local / Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 171

Pharmaceutical Governance / João Biehl 206

Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of Unequal Access in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Betty Kyaddondo 240

References 263

Contributors 289

Index 291

Über Autor(innen)

Adriana Petryna is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Fellow, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl.Andrew Lakoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry.Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Among his books are Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine and The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition.