1st Edition

Public Health, Personal Health and Pills Drug Entanglements and Pharmaceuticalised Governance

By Kevin Dew Copyright 2019
196 Pages 2 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

Public Health, Personal Health and Pills explores the processes and effects of the increasing governance of our lives through pharmaceuticals, looking at the moral, interactional, social and political forces that shape our use of them. It demonstrates the ways in which social relationships and identities are developed, sustained and transformed through medication use. Building on the... Read more

Chapter 1. Orienting to pharmaceuticalised governance

Chapter 2. The Development pharmaceutical hegemony

Chapter 3. Expanding Medicine

Chapter 4. Moral forces and medicine

Chapter 5. Medication practices in the home

Chapter 6. Sources of practices and their contestation

Chapter 7. Populations and medications

Chapter 8. Adverse reactions and the proliferation of risk

Chapter 9. Underreporting of side effects

Chapter 10. Pharmacovigilance lessons

Chapter 11. Different faces of governance

Chapter 12. Resisting pharmaceuticalised governance

Chapter 13. Drug entanglements and governance

Biography

Kevin Dew is a Professor of Sociology at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. He is a founding member of the Applied Research on Communication in Health (ARCH) Group. Current research activities include studies of interactions between health professionals and patients, cancer care decision-making in relation to health inequities and the social meanings of medications.