Table of Contents:
  • The pharmaceuticalisation of society? : a framework for analysis / Simon J. Williams, Paul Martin and Jonathan Gabe
  • Pharmaceutical witnessing : drugs for life in an era of direct-to-consumer advertising / Joseph Dumit
  • Releasing the flood waters : Diuril and the reshaping of hypertension / Jeremy Greene
  • Depression and consumation : psychopharmaceuticals, branding, and new identity practices / Nathan Greenslit
  • BiDil : medicating the intersection of race and heart failure / Anne Pollock
  • Manufacturing desire : the commodification of female sexual dysfunction / Jennifer Fishman
  • Following the script : how drug reps make friends and influence doctors / Adriane Fugh-Berman and Shahram Ahari
  • Getting to yes : corporate power and the creation of a psychopharmaceutical blockbuster / Kalman Applbaum
  • Pushing knowledge in the drug industry : ghost-managed science / Sergio Sismondo
  • Transcultural medicine : a multi-sited ethnography on the scientific-industrial networking of Korean medicine / Jongyoung Kim
  • Uncommon trajectories : steroid hormones, Mexican peasants, and the search for a wild yam / Gabriela Soto Laveaga
  • 'Ready-to-recruit' or 'ready to consent' populations : informed consent and the limits of subject autonomy / Jill Fisher
  • Clinical trials offshored : on private sector science and public health / Adriana Petryna
  • The experimental machinery of global clinical trials : case studies from India / Kaushik Sunder Rajan
  • Intellectual property and public health : copying of HIV/AIDS drugs by Brazilian public and private pharmaceutical laboratories / Maurice Cassier and Marilena Correa
  • Global pharmaceutical markets and corporate citizenship : the case of Novartis : anti-cancer drug Glivec / Stefan Ecks
  • Generic medicines and the question of the similar / Cori Hayden.