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Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals
Ericka Johnson (Ed.)
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Description for Gendering Drugs: Feminist Studies of Pharmaceuticals
Hardback. Editor(s): Johnson, Erika. Num Pages: 232 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFSJ; JHB; MBS; PSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 447.
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 sex and gender in the pharmaceuticalization processes. Topics explored in this diverse collection include the use of hormones to delay puberty onset for trans children; HPV vaccination against cervical cancer in Sweden, the UK, Austria and Colombia; Alzheimer's discourses; and the medication of prostate issues. Ericka Johnson has brought together an innovative and timely collection that ... Read more
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 sex and gender in the pharmaceuticalization processes. Topics explored in this diverse collection include the use of hormones to delay puberty onset for trans children; HPV vaccination against cervical cancer in Sweden, the UK, Austria and Colombia; Alzheimer's discourses; and the medication of prostate issues. Ericka Johnson has brought together an innovative and timely collection that ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319514864
SKU
V9783319514864
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99-15
About Ericka Johnson (Ed.)
Ericka Johnson is Senior Lecturer and Assistant Director of Technology and Social Change at Linkoeping University, Sweden. Her research interests include medical bodies and subjects as refracted by medical technologies.
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