The Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals
A Biographical Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2296382 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Van Der Geest (0000-0002-9943-6415, Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, Amsterdam, 1012 DK The Netherlands), Sjaak Van Der Geest, R Whyte (0000-0001-7253-6478, University of Copenhagen), Susan Reynolds Whyte (Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, Amsterdam, 1012 DK The Netherlands), Anita Hardon (0000-0002-2761-5502, Medical Anthropology Unit, University of Amsterdam, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 185, Amsterdam, 1012 DK The Netherlands) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 153-178 |
| Publication date | 1996-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.25.1.153 |
| OpenAlex | W2110289718 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 236 |
| References cited | 133 |
This review discusses pharmaceuticals as social and cultural phenomena by following their "life cycle" from production, marketing, and prescription to distribution, purchasing, consumption, and finally their efficacy. Each phase has its own particular context, actors, and transactions and is characterized by different sets of values and ideas. The anthropology of pharmaceuticals is relevant to medical anthropology and health policy. It also touches the heart of general anthropology with its long-time interest in the concepts of culture vs nature, symbolization and social transformation, and its more recent concerns with the cultural construction of the body and processes of globalization and localization. The study of transactions and meanings of pharmaceuticals in diverse social settings provides a particularly appropriate empirical base for addressing these new theoretical issues
Consumption · Consumption (sociology · Context (archaeology · Globalization · Medical anthropology · Political science · Social anthropology · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · History of Science and Medicine
Fluid Drugs
Transnationalizing Critical Drug Studies
Science of Uncertainty
The Psychological Anthropology of Mental Health and Psychiatric Treatment
Technologies of Knowledge
Pharmaceutical Reason
Technologies of Invisibility
Elusive Travelers
Anthropology and the
Movilidad y condiciones de vida de pacientes en tratamiento de tuberculosis pulmonar
Pharmaceuticals
“Treating myself first”
Les médicaments antirétroviraux et le VIH/sida
Instrumentalising therapeutic and enhancement drugs as pharmacological technologies with politicogenic drug effects
Understanding physician prescription behaviors
Antibiotic consumption, structured vulnerabilities, and networks of survival in Southern Pakistan
Médicament
Disease classification
Kyanmabase, « Bonne santé à vous ! ». Logiques et pratiques d’automédication en Arakan (Birmanie)
Dementia, a Polypharmaceutical Phenomenon
Contested Issues of Efficacy and Safety between Transnational Formulation Regimes of Tibetan Medicines in China and Europe
Contingent Efficacies in Buryat Tibetan Medicine
Tracking Globalization
Bibliographie
Addiction Markets
Life
Expert Ignorance
Data Paradoxes
Drug Wars
Uncanny Scripts
Psychotropic drugs in Nepal
Implications of healing power and positioning for collaboration between formal mental health services and traditional/alternative medicine
Medication and the patient–doctor relationship
Pharmaceutical Services in Brazil
Assistência farmacêutica no Brasil
Drugs’ Life
Therapeutic equivalence, different stigma
Preserving Identity or Promoting Safety? The Issue of Mercury in Siddha Medicine
Pervious Drugs
Face aux risques médicamenteux
Critical Medical Anthropology
Pursuing Pleasures of Productivity
Merging care and prevention
Deep Pharma
The Other Side of Medicalization
Medication by Proxy
Informated Health And Ethical Identity Management
Sub-standard or Sub-legal? Distribution, Pharma Dossiers, and Fake-talk in India
Fake-talk, Side Effects and the Trouble with Hormonal Contraceptives among Women in Dar es Salaam
Out of Compassion or Out of Rights? A Story about an Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Human Clinical Trial
Bio-imaginaries
Biomedical packages
The Long Shadow of Fake Drugs and the Social Lives of Fake-ness
Medicamentos em contexto local indígena
Antropologia dos medicamentos
Ordonnance coloniale, prescriptions médicales et changement social
Drogas fluidas
Na busca pela testosterona
Broscience
Me sinto outra pessoa
Cada mamada é uma vacina
A fluidez do aprimoramento cognitivo farmacológico e a co-produção de modos de subjetividade na contemporaneidade
From Colonial Medicines to Global Pharmaceuticals? The Introduction of Sulfa Drugs in French Vietnam
The other face of medical globalization? Pharmaceutical data, prescribing trends, and the social localization of psychostimulants
Unstable pharmaceutical values
Transforming the critique of Big Pharma
Le pluralisme médicamenteux face à l’épidémie de VIH/sida au Viêt Nam
Cosmopolitans in Australian and New Zealand Health Care Systems
Lud, t. 97, 2013
In Search of the State
Pesticides et récits de crise dans le monde paysan cambodgien
Automédication et pluralisme thérapeutique
Trente-cinq ans d’anthropologie du médicament en Afrique
De la relation pharmaciens-usagers. Reconfigurations et négociations dans une pharmacie suisse
Contraception d’urgence au Brésil
Mystifying medicines and maximising profit
Linking traditional treatments of maternal anaemia to iron supplement use
Redpilling
The rise to prominence of Artemisia annual the transformation of a Chinese plant to a global pharmaceutical
Medication Use and Gender in Massachusetts
Pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV in Brazil
Masculinity and emotion in Mexican men's understandings of erectile dysfunction aetiology and treatment
Growing Appetites and Hungry Subjects
Impact de l'implantation des dispensaires et de l'activité des « passants » et des vendeurs de médicaments chinois sur la maladie djékwasô en pays Gouro (Côte d'Ivoire)
Nouveaux produits de la pharmacopée chinoise contemporaine
Crazy for Ya Ba
Mexican migrant ethnopharmacology
Knowledge, legitimacy and economic practice in informal markets for medicine
Pediatric therapeutics and medicine administration in resource-poor settings
Prescription Medication Sharing
A Stalled Revolution? Misoprostol and the Pharmaceuticalization of Reproductive Health in Francophone Africa
Public prophylaxis
The In-Home Use of Medications
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
Lay Understandings of Functional Foods as Hybrids of Food and Medicine
Pharmaceutical Potentials
Medicinal commodities and the gift of a caring mother
Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings
Geriatrics and humanism
Neither Snake Oils nor Miracle Cures
The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries
The Drugging of the Americas
Entangled Objects
The Quest for Therapy in Lower Zaire
Death Without Weeping
The cultural biography of things
Cultural Complexity
The Social Life of Things
Asian Medical Systems
Counterworks
The Use of Herbal and Biomedical Pharmaceuticals on Mauritius
Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture
“Feed a cold, starve a fever” — folk models of infection in an english suburban community, and their relation to medical treatment
Marketplace conversations in Cameroon
Pharmaceuticals as folk medicine
Misunderstanding as therapy
The logic of noncompliance
Commercial pharmaceutical medicine and medicalization
This will clear your mind
Compliance and the patient's perspective
A question of medicine answering
Essential drugs and developing countries
Patients' compliance with medical treatments in the third world. What do we know
Deranged distribution, perverse prescription, unprotected use
Medical pluralism on a Guatemalan plantation
Tonic’, ‘fuel’ and ‘food’
The layperson's perception of medicine as perspective into the utilization of multiple therapy systems in the Indian context
Hot-cold classification
Limits to medicine. Medical nemesis
Traditional healers and modern medicine
Thai “injection doctors”
Agenda for an anthropology of pharmaceutical practice
Sexual Relationships and Birth Control in Ghana
Anthropology of Symbolic Healing [and Comments and Reply]
O medicamento como mercadoria simbólica
Pharmacies as alternative sources of medical care
Physician motivations for nonscientific drug prescribing
Northern Thai health care alternatives
The frontier of modern Western medicine in Nepal
Reconsidering the popularity of primary health centers in India
Pharmaceuticals and health policy
Pharmaceuticals in two Brazilian villages
The dilemma of essential drugs in primary health care
Veiled Sentiments
In the shadow of biomedicine
Medical compliance as an ideology
The metaphorical nature of drugs and drug taking
Cured to death
Misinformation about medications in rural Ghana
Availability of pharmaceuticals in sub-Saharan Africa
Marketing 'mind mechanics
Traditional or transitional medical systems? Pharmacotherapy as a case for analysis
Supply and use of essential drugs in sub-Saharan Africa
The use of modern pharmaceuticals in a Filipino village
Self-medication
Inappropriate distribution of medicines by professionals in developing countries
The indigenization of pharmaceuticals
The influence of traditional medicine in shaping medical care practices in Vietnam today
Sorcery and penicillin
Paying for what ails you
Penicillin, battery acid and sacrifice
Self-care and the informal sale of drugs in South Cameroon
The efficiency of inefficiency
Doctors dispensing medications
Home remedies and doctors' remedies in Feira (Brazil)
The meaning of medications
Codes' and practice
Anthropology and international health
Pharmaceuticals and health policy
The reinterpretation of Western pharmaceuticals among the Mende of Sierra Leone
Medicines and culture-A double perspective on drug utilization in a developing country
Injections
Why we seek treatment here
Anthropological research perspectives on health problems in developing countries
Uses of formal and informal knowledge in the comprehension of instructions for oral rehydration therapy in Kenya
Reported and actual prescription of oral rehydration therapy for childhood diarrhoeas by retail pharmacists in Nigeria
Drug information and sale practices in some pharmacies of Colombo, Sri Lanka
A case study of the interaction between indigenous and Western medicine among the Pokot of Kenya
Drug prescription and self-medication in India
Du clandestin à l'officieux. Les réseaux de vente illicite des médicaments au Sénégal
A Bitter Pill to Swallow
Fetishism
Body and Mind in Zulu Medicine
Adaptation in Cultural Evolution
Drinking the Koran
Humoral Medicine in Guatemala and Peasant Acceptance of Modern Medicine
Side Effects
The Charm of Medicines
Tracing Home-Based Health Care Change in an Andean Indian Community
Perspectives of the Placebo Phenomenon
Economic Custom in a Competitive Marketplace
Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy
Anthropology and Pharmaceuticals in Developing Countries
Art, science, faith and medicine
Part 5
Part 1
| Unique citing works | 236 |
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| Citations per year | 8,43 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 233 |