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

Other author Sismondo, Sergio.
Other author Greene, Jeremy A., 1974-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoChichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Pharmaceutical studies reader Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015 9781118488836
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