Pharmaceutical Reason - Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry

Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext An arresting case-study highlighting the social and political implications of a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about human behaviour. Zusammenfassung Lakoff presents an arresting case-study highlighting the social and political implications of a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon human behaviour and human thought. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina! this will appeal beyond psychiatry and the life sciences. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Andrew Lakoff, Lakoff Andrew
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 05.01.2006
• EAN: 9780521546669
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54666-9
• Dimensioni: 154 mm x 228 mm x 15 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Society a; Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Argentina, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / General, MEDICAL / Psychiatry / Psychopharmacology, Psychiatry, Psychopharmacology