Social Lives of Medicines

by Anita Hardon, Sjaak van der Geest, Susan Reynolds Whyte

Medicines are the core of treatment in biomedicine, as in many other medical traditions. As material things, they have social as well as pharmacological lives, with people and between people. They are tokens of healing and hope, as well as valuable commodities. Each chapter of this book shows drugs in the hands of particular actors: mothers in Manila, villagers in Burkina Faso, women in the Netherlands, consumers in London, market traders in Cameroon,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521804698
• ISBN13: 9780521804691
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 8.9"