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Pharmaceutical Reason
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Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521546669
Veröffentl:
2009
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
28.02.2009
Seiten:
220
Autor:
Andrew Lakoff
Gewicht:
365 g
Format:
229x152x13 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr Andrew Lakoff is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is co-editor, with Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman of Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices (2006).
An arresting case-study highlighting the social and political implications of a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about human behaviour.
Introduction: specific effects; 1. Diagnostic liquidity; 2. Medicating the symptom; 3. The Lacan ward; 4. Living with neuroscience; 5. The private life of numbers; Conclusion: the segmented phenotype.