Kevin Dew

Public Health, Personal Health and Pills

Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the processes and effects of the increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals, looking at the moral, interactional, social and political forces that shape our use of them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 277g
• ISBN-13: 9780367457532
• ISBN-10: 0367457539
• Artikelnr.: 58413836

Autorenporträt

Kevin Dew is a Professor of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH) Group. Current research activities include studies of interactions between health professionals and patients, cancer care decision-making in relation to health inequities and the social meanings of medications.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1. Orienting to pharmaceuticalised governance
Chapter 2. The Development pharmaceutical hegemony
Chapter 3. Expanding Medicine
Chapter 4. Moral forces and medicine
Chapter 5. Medication practices in the home
Chapter 6. Sources of practices and their contestation
Chapter 7. Populations and medications
Chapter 8. Adverse reactions and the proliferation of risk
Chapter 9. Underreporting of side effects
Chapter 10. Pharmacovigilance lessons
Chapter 11. Different faces of governance
Chapter 12. Resisting pharmaceuticalised governance
Chapter 13. Drug entanglements and governance