Gendered Drugs And Medicine: Historical And Socio-cultural Perspectives
by Professor Teresa Ortiz-GГіmez /
2014 / English / PDF
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Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers objects that impact on social hierarchies, health practices and public policies. This book focuses on the ways that gender, race/ethnicity and class, influence the design, standardisation and circulation of drugs throughout several highly medicalised countries. Seventeen authors from eight different countries, both European and non-European, analyse the extent to which the dominant ideas and values surrounding masculinity and femininity shape the research, prescription and use of drugs by women and/or men within particular social and cultural contexts.
