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 Info | Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : Wiley Blackwell, 2015. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Pharmaceutical studies reader Chichester, UK ; Malden, MA : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2015 9781118488836 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2014049434 |
| ISBN | 9781118896549 (ePub) |
| ISBN | 9781118896716 (Adobe PDF) |