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The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries - Studies in Pharmaceutical Anthropology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
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The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries - Studies in Pharmaceutical Anthropology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1988)
Series: Culture, Illness and Healing, 12
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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 'pharmaceutical invasion', little has been written
about how local people perceive and use these products. This book
is a first attempt to remedy that situation. It presents studies of
the ways Western medicines are circulated and understood in the
cities and rural areas of Africa, Asia and Latin America. We feel
that such a collection is long overdue for two reasons. The first
is a practical one: people dealing with health problems in
developing countries need information about local situations and
they need examples of methods they can use to examine the
particular contexts in which they are working. We hope that this
book will be useful for pharmacists, doctors, nurses, health
planners, policy makers and concerned citizens, who are interested
in the realities of drug use. Why do people want various kinds of
medicine? How do they evaluate and choose them and how do they
obtain them? The second reason for these studies of medicines is to
fill a need in medical anthropology as a field of study. Here we
address our colleagues in anthropol ogy, medical sociology and
related disciplines."
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