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

ISBN-13: 9780367457532 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 196 str.

Kevin Dew

Opis

This book 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.

O autorze

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.