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Informationen zum Autor 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.Andrew Lakoff is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry.Arthur Kleinman is the Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Professor of Medical Anthropology, and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard University. Among his books are Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine and The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing, and the Human Condition. Klappentext Anthropological study of the globalization of pharmaceuticals and its effects on local cultures, health, and economics. Zusammenfassung Ethnographic case studies focused on the dynamics of the burgeoning international pharmaceutical industry and the global inequalities that emerge from and are reinforced by market-driven medicine. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii The Pharmaceutical Nexus / Adriana Petryna and Arthur Kleinman 1 Globalizing Human Subjects Research / Adriana Petryna 33 The New Medical Oikumene / David Healy 61 Educating for Global Mental Health: The Adoption of SSRIs in Japan / Kalman Applbaum 85 High Contact: Gifts and Surveillance in Argentina / Andrew Lakoff 111 Addiction Markets: The Case of High-Dose Buprenorphine in France / Anne M. Lovell 136 Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies: The Register of the Local / Veena Das and Ranendra K. Das 171 Pharmaceutical Governance / João Biehl 206 Treating AIDS: Dilemmas of Unequal Access in Uganda / Susan Reynolds Whyte, Michael A. Whyte, Lotte Meinert, and Betty Kyaddondo 240 References 263 Contributors 289 Index 291
