{"product_id":"the-pharmaceutical-studies-reader-isbn-9781118490150","title":"The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pharmaceutical Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on anthropological, historical, and sociological approaches to explore the social life of pharmaceuticals with special emphasis on their production, circulation, and consumption\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers 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 research and marketing in the age of globalization\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eOffers a compelling, contextually-rich treatment of the topic that exposes readers to a variety of approaches, ideas, and frameworks\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eProvides an accessible introduction for readers with no previous background in this area\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy A. Greene and Sergio Sismondo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Pharmaceutical Lives 17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Pharmaceuticalisation of Society? A Framework for Analysis 19\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Pharmaceutical Witnessing: Drugs for Life in an Era of Direct]to]Consumer Advertising 33\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoseph Dumit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II New Drugs, Diseases, and Identities 49\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Releasing the Flood Waters: Diuril and the Reshaping of Hypertension 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy A. Greene\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 DepRession and ConsumŠtion: Psychopharmaceuticals, Branding, and New Identity Practices 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNathan Greenslit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 BiDil: Medicating the Intersection of Race and Heart Failure 87\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnne Pollock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Manufacturing Desire: The Commodification of Female Sexual Dysfunction 106\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer R. Fishman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Drugs and the Circulation of Medical Knowledge 121\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Following the Script: How Drug Reps Make Friends and Influence Doctors 123\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdriane Fugh]Berman and Shahram Ahari\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Getting to Yes: Corporate Power and the Creation of a Psychopharmaceutical Blockbuster 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKalman Applbaum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Pushing Knowledge in the Drug Industry: Ghost]Managed Science 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSergio Sismondo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Transcultural Medicine: A Multi]Sited Ethnography on the Scientific]Industrial Networking of Korean Medicine 165\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJongyoung Kim\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart IV Political and Moral Economies of Pharmaceutical Research 179\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Uncommon Trajectories: Steroid Hormones, Mexican Peasants, and the Search for a Wild Yam 181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabriela Soto Laveaga\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 “Ready]to]Recruit” or “Ready]to]Consent” Populations? Informed Consent and the Limits of Subject Autonomy 195\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJill A. Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Clinical Trials Offshored: On Private Sector Science and Public Health 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAdriana Petryna\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The Experimental Machinery of Global Clinical Trials: Case Studies from India 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKaushik Sunder Rajan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart V Intellectual Property in Local and Global Markets 235\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Intellectual Property and Public Health: Copying of HIV\/AIDS Drugs by Brazilian Public and Private Pharmaceutical Laboratories 237\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaurice Cassier and Marilena Correa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Global Pharmaceutical Markets and Corporate Citizenship: The Case of Novartis’ Anti]Cancer Drug Glivec 247\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStefan Ecks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Generic Medicines and the Question of the Similar 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCori Hayden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 268\u003c\/p\u003e \"...provides an in-depth look at the machinery that enables the continued expansion of pharmaceutical products, markets, and subjects.\" - \u003ci\u003eEllen Rubinstein for Anthropology Book Forum, Anthropology News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSergio Sismondo\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at Queen’s University, Canada. His current work, including a number of recent articles, explores the pharmaceutical industry’s development and deployment of clinical research, focusing on intersections of marketing and science. He is the author and co-author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eAn Introduction to Science and Technology Studies, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (Wiley Blackwell, 2010) and \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Science\u003c\/i\u003e (2003). He is Editor of the journal \u003ci\u003eSocial Studies of Science\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeremy A. Greene\u003c\/b\u003e is Elizabeth Treide and A. McGehee Harvey Chair in the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His recent work focuses on the ways in which the development and consumption of therapeutics interact with our understandings of what it means to be sick or healthy, normal or abnormal. His broader research interests focus on the history of disease, the history of global health, and the history of the pharmaceutical industry and its interactions with medical research, clinical practice, and public health.  He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGeneric: The Unbranding of Modern Medicines\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and \u003ci\u003ePrescribing by Numbers: Drugs and the Definition of Disease\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), as well as co-editor of \u003ci\u003ePrescribed: Writing, Filling, Using, and Abusing the Prescription in Modern America\u003c\/i\u003e (2012).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Pharmaceutical Studies Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging examination of this new and growing field, bringing together provocative, multi-disciplinary articles to look at the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace. Ranging far beyond 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing 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 globalization.  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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990309421285,"sku":"NP9781118490150","price":54.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781118490150.jpg?v=1761787300","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-pharmaceutical-studies-reader-isbn-9781118490150","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}