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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. As a collective endeavour,
this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with
race/ethnicity and class, influence the design, standardisation and
circulation of drugs throughout several highly medicalised
countries throughout the twentieth century and until the
twenty-first. Fourteen authors from different European and
non-European countries analyse the extent to which the dominant
ideas and values surrounding masculinity and femininity have
contributed to shape the research, prescription and use of drugs by
women and men within particular social and cultural contexts. New
and lesser-known, gender-specific issues in lifestyles and social
practices associated with pharmaceutical technologies are analysed,
as is the manner in which they intervene in life experiences such
as reproduction, sexual desire, childbirth, depression and
happiness. The processes of prescribing, selling, marketing and
accepting or forbidding drugs is also examined, as is the
contribution of gendered medical practices to the medicalisation
and growing consumption of drugs by women. Gender relations and
other hierarchies are involved as both causes and consequences of
drug cultures, and of the history and social life of gender in
contemporary drug production, use and consumption. A network of
agents emerges from this book's research, contributing to a better
understanding of both gender and drugs within our society.
Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances
and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social hierarchies,
health practices and public policies. As a collective endeavour,
this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with
race/ethnicity and class, influence the design, standardisation and
circulation of drugs throughout several highly medicalised
countries throughout the twentieth century and until the
twenty-first. Fourteen authors from different European and
non-European countries analyse the extent to which the dominant
ideas and values surrounding masculinity and femininity have
contributed to shape the research, prescription and use of drugs by
women and men within particular social and cultural contexts. New
and lesser-known, gender-specific issues in lifestyles and social
practices associated with pharmaceutical technologies are analysed,
as is the manner in which they intervene in life experiences such
as reproduction, sexual desire, childbirth, depression and
happiness. The processes of prescribing, selling, marketing and
accepting or forbidding drugs is also examined, as is the
contribution of gendered medical practices to the medicalisation
and growing consumption of drugs by women. Gender relations and
other hierarchies are involved as both causes and consequences of
drug cultures, and of the history and social life of gender in
contemporary drug production, use and consumption. A network of
agents emerges from this book's research, contributing to a better
understanding of both gender and drugs within our society.
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