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Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry: Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences

Autor Andrew Lakoff
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 ian 2006
Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the most psychoanalysts per capita in the world) Lakoff looks at new ways of understanding and intervening in human behaviour. He charts the globalization of pharmacology, particularily the global impact of US psychiatry and US models of illness, and further illustrates the clashes, conflicts, alliances and reformulations that take place when psychoanalytic and psychopharmacological models of illness and cure meet. Highlighting the social and political implications that these new forms of expertise about human behaviour and human thought bring, Lakoff presents an arresting case-study that will appeal to scholars and students alike.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521546669
ISBN-10: 0521546664
Pagini: 220
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

'…a substantial contribution to the sociology of psychiatry. It is as essential as those by Estroff, Barrett and Karp. I can only hope it will be read not only by sociologists or anthropologists, but also by students on their way to becoming psychiatrists.' Journal of BioSocieties

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An arresting case-study highlighting the social and political implications of a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about human behaviour.