Adriana Petryna / Andrew Lakoff / Arthur Kleinman

Broschiertes Buch

Global Pharmaceuticals

Ethics, Markets, Practices

Herausgeber: Petryna, Adriana; Lakoff, Andrew; Kleinman, Arthur

Beschreibung

Ethnographic case studies focused on the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical industry and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine.

Autor

Adriana Petryna is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Fellow, Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Life Exposed: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl. Andrew Lakoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry. Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Among his books are Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine and The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337416
• ISBN-10: 082233741X
• Artikelnr.: 21956567