Social Lives of Medicines

The focus of this book is medicines (swallowed, injected, rubbed on), as understood by anthropologists concerned solely with their social uses. The text begins with examples of a mother medicating a child in various cultural contexts and ends with a broad review of the complex elements that determine the production and use of medicines. Since 1993, Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology has offered researchers and instructors monographs and edited collections of leading scholarship in one of the most lively and popular subfields of cultural and social anthropology. Beginning in 2002, the CSMA series presents theme booksworks that synthesize emerging scholarship from relatively new subfields or that reinterpret the literature of older ones. Designed as course material for advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and for professionals in related areas (physicians, nurses, public health workers, and medical sociologists), these theme books will demonstrate how work in medical anthropology is carried out and convey the importance of a given topic for a wide variety of readers. About 160 pages in length, the theme books are not simply staid reviews of the literature. They are, instead, new ways of conceptualizing topics in medical anthropology that take advantage of current research and the growing edges of the field.

Author: Susan Reynolds Whyte, Sjaak Van Der Geest, Anita Hardon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 212
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.15w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780521804691

About the Author
Whyte, Susan Reynolds: - Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor at the Institute of Anthropology of the University of Copenhagen.Van Der Geest, Sjaak: - Sjaak van der Geest is Professor of Medical Anthropology at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the University of Amsterdam.Hardon, Anita: - Anita Hardon is Professor and Director of the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research at the University of Amsterdam.

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