Joseph Dumit

Gebundenes Buch

Drugs for Life

How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

Beschreibung

Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment.

Autor

Joseph Dumit is Director of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity and editor, with Regula ValÉrie Burri, of Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348603
• ISBN-10: 0822348608
• Artikelnr.: 35529086