Gendered drugs and medicine historical and socio-cultural perspectives
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Farnham, Surrey
Ashgate Publishing Limited
[2014]
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| Schriftenreihe: | Gender and well-being
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Introduction
- Gender and women in pharmaceutical research, consumption and industry
- Estrogens and butter yellow : gendered policies of contamination in Germany and Western Europe, 1940-1970 / Heiko Stoff
- Rising from failure : testing drugs and changing conceptions for female sexual dysfunction / Marta I González-García
- Circulating gender : women in antibiotics factories in Spain during Franco dictatorship / María Jesús Santesmases
- Contraceptives for women : between users and prescribers
- Spermicides and their female users after World War II : North and South / Ilana Löwy
- Managing medication and producing patients : imagining women's use of contraceptive pill compliance dispensers in 1960-s America / Carrie Eisert
- Doctors, women and the circulation of knowledge on oral contraceptives in Spain : 1960s-1970s / Agata Ignaciuk, Teresa Ortiz-Gómez, Esteban Rodríguez- Ocaña
- The contraceptive pill, the pharmaceutical industry and changes in the patient- doctor relationship / Ulrike Thoms
- Users and abusers then and now : discourses and practices
- Women, men, and the morphine problem, 1870-1955 / Jesper Vaczy Kragh
- "A gendered vice?" : gender issues and drug abuse in France, 1960s-1990s / Alexandre Marchant
- Learning to be a girl : gender risk and legal drugs among Spanish teenagers / Nuria Romo-Avilés, Carmen Meneses, Eugenia Gil-García
- Index
- 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 w