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Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry - Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences Lakoff, Andrew (University of California, San Diego)
Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry - Cambridge Studies in Society and the Life Sciences
Lakoff, Andrew (University of California, San Diego)
Lakoff presents an arresting case-study highlighting the social and political implications of a new 'pharmaceutical' way of thinking about and acting upon human behaviour and human thought. Drawing from a comprehensive ethnography of psychiatric practice in Argentina, this will appeal beyond psychiatry and the life sciences.
216 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 5, 2006 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521837606 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 218 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 16 mm · 467 g |
| Language | English |