Gendered drugs and medicine
Subtitle: historical and socio-cultural perspectives
By: by Teresa Ortiz-Gómez and María Jesús Santesmases
Contributors: Santesmases, María Jesús
Series: Gender and well-being
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Burlington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781409454045; 9781409454052; 9781472402318
Subjects: Medicine; History; Social medicine; Women in medicine; Drugs; Pharmaceutical industry
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Gender and women in pharmaceutical research, consumption and industry; title: Estrogens and butter yellow : gendered policies of contamination in Germany and Western Europe, 1940-1970 / Heiko Stoff; title: Rising from failure : testing drugs and changing conceptions for female sexual dysfunction / Marta I González-García; title: Circulating gender : women in antibiotics factories in Spain during Franco dictatorship / María Jesús Santesmases; title: Contraceptives for women : between users and prescribers; title: Spermicides and their female users after World War II : North and South / Ilana Löwy; title: Managing medication and producing patients : imagining women's use of contraceptive pill compliance dispensers in 1960-s America / Carrie Eisert; title: Doctors, women and the circulation of knowledge on oral contraceptives in Spain : 1960s-1970s / Agata Ignaciuk, Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, Esteban Rodríguez- Ocaña; title: The contraceptive pill, the pharmaceutical industry and changes in the patient- doctor relationship / Ulrike Thoms; title: Users and abusers then and now : discourses and practices; title: Women, men, and the morphine problem, 1870-1955 / Jesper Vaczy Kragh; title: "A gendered vice?" : gender issues and drug abuse in France, 1960s-1990s / Alexandre Marchant; title: Learning to be a girl : gender risk and legal drugs among Spanish teenagers / Nuria Romo-Avilés, Carmen Meneses, Eugenia Gil-García; title: Index.