Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry
(Part of the Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences Series)
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Book Overview
Andrew Lakoff argues that a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon mental disorder is coming to reshape not only the field of psychiatry, but also our very notions of self. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina (a country which boasts the most psychoanalysts per capita in the world) Lakoff looks at new ways of understanding and intervening in human behaviour. He charts the globalization of pharmacology, particularily the global impact of US psychiatry and US models of illness, and further illustrates the clashes, conflicts, alliances and reformulations that take place when psychoanalytic and psychopharmacological models of illness and cure meet. Highlighting the social and political implications that these new forms of expertise about human behaviour and human thought bring, Lakoff presents an arresting case-study that will appeal to scholars and students alike.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0521546664
ISBN13:9780521546669
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Length:220 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
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A great book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
This is a great book. It shows the effects of the categories we use in a specific context and provides insight of why in some places doctors use a language that is not transfarable to other contexts in their rigid form. As the author shows, categories are inmersed in social, political and epistemological mileu. For those who love Foucault, Harre, Hacking Parker or Rose, this is a very complementary reading.
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