The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries Studies in Pharmaceutical Anthropology
Western pharmaceuticals are flooding the Third World. Injections, capsules and tablets are available in city markets and village shops, from 'traditional' practitioners and street vendors, as well as from more orthodox sources like hospitals. Although many are aware of this 'pharmaceu...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1988, 1988
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1988 |
| Series: | Culture, Illness and Healing
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Table of Contents:
- Medicines in Context: an Introduction
- The Transaction of Medicines
- Introductory Note
- Commercial Pharmaceutical Medicine and Medicalization: a Case Study from El Salvador
- Traditional Practitioners and Western Pharmaceuticals in Sri Lanka
- Medicines and Rural Health Services: an Experiment in the Dominican Republic
- Buying Drugs in Addis Ababa: a Quantitative Analysis
- ‘Casi como doctor’: Pharmacists and their Clients in a Mexican Urban Context
- The Articulation of Formal and Informal Medicine Distribution in South Cameroon
- The Rise of the Modern Jamu Industry in Indonesia: a Preliminary Overview
- The Meaning of Medicines
- Introductory Note
- Culture and Pharmaceutics: Some Epistemological Observations of Pharmacological Systems in Ancient Europe and Medieval China
- The Use of Herbal and Biomedical Pharmaceuticals on Mauritius
- The Power of Medicines in East Africa
- Traditional Medication at Pregnancy and Childbirth in Madura, Indonesia
- The Reinterpretation and Distribution of Western Pharmaceuticals: an Example from the Mende of Sierra Leone
- Cultural Meanings of Oral Rehydration Salts in Jamaica
- Penicillin: an Ancient Ayurvedic Medicine
- Cultural Constructions of Efficacy
- Conclusion
- Pharmaceutical Anthropology: Perspectives for Research and Application
- List of Contributors
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects