Overview
- Combines interdisciplinary feminist science studies and science and technology studies
- Examines how gender can be seen in critical pharmaceutical studies
- Argues that the pharmaceutical studies field is 'gender-blind' and provides a set of tools to change this
- Acts as a valuable introductory book to the growing area of gender in pharmaceutical studies
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This book, by bringing together critical pharmaceutical studies and feminist technoscience studies, explores the way drugs produce sexed and/or gendered identities for those who take – or resist – them, and how feminist technoscience studies can contribute a theoretical lens with which to observe sex and gender in the pharmaceuticalization processes. Topics explored in this diverse collection include the use of hormones to delay puberty onset for trans children; HPV vaccination against cervical cancer in Sweden, the UK, Austria and Colombia; Alzheimer’s discourses; and the medication of prostate issues. Ericka Johnson has brought together an innovative and timely collection that demonstrates gender as relevant in studies of pharmaceuticals, and provides multiple examples of methodological and theoretical tools to consider gender while studying drugs.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Making Scientific and Medical Truths
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Creating Subjectivities for “Patients” in Advertising
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Ericka Johnson is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, Sweden. Her research interests include medical bodies and subjects as refracted by medical technologies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gendering Drugs
Book Subtitle: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals
Editors: Ericka Johnson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51487-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-51486-4Published: 02 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84664-4Published: 13 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-51487-1Published: 20 February 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 232
Topics: Science and Technology Studies, Gender Studies, Medical Sociology, Sociology of the Body, Medical Biochemistry