Beschreibung:
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.
Anthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, health, and economics.
Acknowledgments viiThe Pharmaceutical Nexus / Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman 1Globalizing Human Subjects Research / Adriana Petryna 33The New Medical Oikumene / David Healy 61Educating for Global Mental Health: The Adoption of SSRIs in Japan / Kalman Applbaum 85High Contact: Gifts and Surveillance in Argentina / Andrew Lakoff 111Addiction Markets: The Case of High-Dose Buprenorphine in France / Anne M. Lovell 136Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The Register of the Local / Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 171Pharmaceutical Governance / João Biehl 206Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of Unequal Access in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Betty Kyaddondo 240References 263Contributors 289Index 291