Pharmaceuticals and society
Subtitle: critical discourses and debates
By: edited by Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe, and Peter Davis.
Contributors: Williams, Simon J. 1961-; Gabe, Jonathan.; Davis, Peter.
Series: Sociology of health and illness monograph series
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405190848
Subjects: Drug abuse -- Great Britain; Drugs -- Social aspects -- Great Britain; Drug abuse; Drugs -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The sociology of pharmaceuticals : progress and prospects / Simon J. Williams, Jonathan Gabe and Peter Davis; title: From Lydia Pinkham to Queen Levitra : direct-to-consumer advertising and medicalisation / Peter Conrad and Valerie Leiter; title: Waking up to sleepiness : Modafinil, the media and the pharmaceuticalisation of everyday/night life / Simon J. Williams [et al.]; title: Pharma in the bedroom; title: and the kitchen; title: the pharmaceuticalisation of daily life / Nick J. Fox and Katie J. Ward; title: Sociology of pharmaceuticals development and regulation : a realist empirical research programme / John Abraham; title: Sex, drugs, and politics : the HPV vaccine for cervical cancer / Monica J. Casper and Laura M. Carpenter; title: New forms of citizenship and socio-political inclusion : accessing antiretroviral therapy in a Rio de Janeiro favela / Fabian Cataldo; title: Over-the-counter medicines : professional expertise and consumer discourses / Fiona A. Stevenson, Miranda Leontowitsch and Catherine Duggan; title: In whose interest? relationships between health consumer groups and the pharmaceutical industry in the UK / Kathryn Jones; title: The great ambivalence : factors likely to affect service user and public acceptability of the pharmacogenomics of antidepressant medication / Michael Barr and Diana Rose; title: Shifting paradigms? reflections on regenerative medicine, embryonic stem cells and pharmaceuticals / Steven P. Wainwright, Mike Michael and Clare Williams.