...Pharmaceuticals in Urban Ecologies The Register of the Local veena das and ranendra k. das Our aim in this chapter is to interrogate the routine and unproblematic use oftermssuchasself-medication in biomedical and anthropological discourse. The ‘‘self ’’ of this compound expression is...

... 7 KrIStIN peterSoN aiDs poLiCies For marKets anD warriors Dispossession, Capital, and Pharmaceuticals in Nigeria Most of the literature on globalization that theorizes flexible capital, flows (media, migration, technology), global cities, cosmopolitanism, and local- global...

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...Pharmaceutical Governance joão biehl Treating AIDS in Brazil Brazil’s groundbreaking aids Program combines safe-sex prevention and harm reduction campaigns with the free distribution of antiretroviral therapies (arvs). In 2005 some 170,000 people were taking anti-hiv drugs funded by...

...The Pharmaceutical Nexus adriana petryna and arthur kleinman Worldwide, images of well-being and health are increasingly associated with access to pharmaceuticals. Media advertisements invite arthritis sufferers to celebrate with co-sufferers who have become pain free after consuming the...

...six knowing Your numbers Pharmaceutical Lifestyles now, after the advent of statins, christmas may be enjoyed—though not to absurd excess—by those with a history of cardiovascular disease or high cholesterol levels. —stuttaford, “long...

... 5 CONSUMING COMPLIANCE Remembering Bodies Inhabit Pharmaceutical Narratives ‘‘One influential interpretation of queer studies’ appearance in the United States writes Susan Stryker...

... Chapter 1 explains the nature of speculative, financialized, multinational pharmaceutical capital. It focuses primarily on the logics that drive the Euro-American, R&D-driven pharmaceutical industry, to argue how an industry that is captured by capital is one that, structurally and...

... This chapter describes the incorporation of ethical and normative commitments into the value-generating activities of the multinational R&D-driven pharmaceutical industry through discourses of innovation and materialized through practices of corporate social responsibility. I focus...

..., and counteracting stress. Pharmaceutical Terms Alexipharmics (AlexipharmicksJ. Substances with reputed antipoison (anti-infection) ac• tivity...

...two pharmaceutical witnessing and direct- to- consumer Advertising people come into my office, throw down an ad, and say, “that’s me.” —a PsychIatrIst It’s a disease that often has no symptoms. —from a tv commercIal to encourage...

...INTRODUCTION Chemical Multitudes Fake Drugs and Pharmaceutical Regulation in Nigeria Holly Martins looked directly at Harry Lime and asked, “Have you ever visited the children’s hospital? Have you ever seen any of your victims...

...The Pharmaceutical Gaze Psychiatry, Scopophilia, and Psychotropic Medication Advertising, 1964–1985 jonathan m. metzl Scopophilia, literally the pleasure in looking, describes the ways in which post-Oedipal male subjects look. As defined...

... Chapter Four THE GENDERED PSYCHODYNAMICS OF PHARMACEUTICAL ADVERTISING, 1964--97 Women are uniquely vulnerable to institutional pressures toward defining their problems in medical terms...

... STEFAN ECKS Near-Liberalism | GLOBAL CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP AND PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING IN INDIA While doing research on pharmaceutical uses in Kolkata in 2005, I had the opportunity to take part in a ‘‘depression awareness workshop’’ organized by the Indian branch...

... FOUR HELENA HANSEN PHARMACEUTICAL EVANGELISM AND SPIRITUAL CAPITAL An American Tale of Two Communities of Addicted Selves The year is 2001. George W. Bush has just won a U.S. presidential campaign that owed much of its success to an evangelist voting...