Gendering Drugs : Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals

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 se...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Johnson, Ericka (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Subjects
Social sciences.
Medical biochemistry.
Sociology.
Social medicine.
Human body > Social aspects.
Sex (Psychology).
Gender expression.
Gender identity.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319514871
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-51487-1
Physical DescriptionXI, 232 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I. Making Scientific and Medical Truths
  • 2. Alzheimer's in the Making
  • 3. The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate
  • 4. New Puberty; New Trans: Children, Pharmaceuticals and Politics
  • Part II. Creating Subjectivities for "Patients" in Advertising
  • 5. Prescribing Relational Subjectivities
  • 6. You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right?
  • Part III. Different HPV Vaccines
  • 7. Evidence, Sex and State Paternalism
  • 8. Young Women and the Pharmaceutical Burden of HPV Vaccinations
  • 9. Two Shots for Children
  • 10. Sexing Drugs, Refracting Discourses.

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