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The Drug Company Next Door
Alexa S. Dietrich
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Description for The Drug Company Next Door
Paperback. Encourages readers to think critically about the role of corporations in everyday life, health, and culture Num Pages: 251 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KJP; JHM; KNDP; RNK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 400.
"This fascinating and most timely critical
medical anthropology study successfully binds two still emergent areas of
contemporary anthropological research in the global world: the nature and
significant impact of multinational pharmaceutical manufacturers on human
social life everywhere, and the contribution of corporations to the fast-paced
degradation of our life support system, planet Earth. . . . Focusing on a
pharmaceutically-impacted town on the colonized island of Puerto Rico, Dietrich
ably demonstrates the value of ethnography carried out in small places in
framing the large issues facing humanity."
—Merrill Singer, University of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
251
Condition
New
Number of Pages
251
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780814724736
SKU
V9780814724736
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About Alexa S. Dietrich
Alexa S. Dietrich is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Wagner College.
Reviews for The Drug Company Next Door
"Dietrich presents the story of Nocora (a pseudonym), a municipality in Puerto Rico that has been the recipient of the blessing and curse of having pharmaceutical companies in its backyard."
I. Glasser
Choice
""Offers a compelling and thought-provoking account of the politics of recognition in Nocorá Puerto Rico, a municipality where the stench of pollution pervades the ... Read more
I. Glasser
Choice
""Offers a compelling and thought-provoking account of the politics of recognition in Nocorá Puerto Rico, a municipality where the stench of pollution pervades the ... Read more