Drugs for Life - How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

Informationen zum Autor Joseph Dumit is Director of Science and Technology Studies and Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. He is the author of Picturing Personhood: Brain Scans and Biomedical Identity and editor, with Regula ValÉrie Burri, of Biomedicine as Culture: Instrumental Practices, Technoscientific Knowledge, and New Modes of Life. Klappentext Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment. Zusammenfassung Joseph Dumit argues that underlying Americans' burgeoning consumption of prescription drugs and the skyrocketing cost of healthcare is a relatively new perception of ourselves as inherently ill and in need of chronic treatment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix List of Illustrations xi Introduction 1 1. Responding to Facts 27 2. Pharmaceutical Witnessing and Direct-to-Consumer Advertising 55 3. Having to Grow Medicine 87 4. Mass Health: Illness Is a Line You Cross 105 5. Moving the Lines: Deciding on Thresholds 135 6. Knowing Your Numbers: Pharmaceutical Lifestyles 181 Conclusion. Living in a World of Surplus Health: Frequently Asked Questions 197 Notes 219 References 239 Index 257

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Dumit
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.09.2012
• EAN: 9780822348603
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4860-3
• No. of pages: 280
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 248 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Experimental Futures; Experimental Futures: Technolo; Experimental Futures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Medizin, allgemein, Fertigungsindustrie