Social Lives of Medicines Paperback: 10 (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, Series Number 10) - Softcover

Whyte, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521804698 ISBN 13: 9780521804691

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

Medicines are more than chemical substances with medical effects. They have social lives because they move between people; they carry meaning and offer possibilities for communication and control. This book uses examples from five continents to examine central problems in the study of medicines including social efficacy, symbolism, and commodification.

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Críticas:

'... [this] recent volume in the Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology series [is an] important contribution to the study of medicines, not only for medical anthropologists, but for anybody who wants to understand what medicines do and how they do what they do ... This book does a good job of presenting some of the research that has been done, and makes a persuasive plea for more anthropological and public health attention to this area.' Journal of Biosocial Science

'It is difficult to do justice to a book that is full of so many different ethnographic studies and details. The plethora of ethnographic material is the book's big strength.' Journal of Social Anthropology

Biografía del autor:

Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen.

Sjaak van der Geest is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.

Anita Hardon is Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0521804698
• ISBN 13: 9780521804691
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 212