Living pharmaceutical lives / edited by Peri Ballantyne and Kath Ryan.
"Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life. This book is of interest to all those studying and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2021.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness.
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| Summary: | "Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life. This book is of interest to all those studying and researching social pharmacy and the sociology of health and illness"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429342868 0429342861 9781000383973 1000383970 9781000384000 1000384004 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Peri Ballantyne is Professorof theDepartment of Sociology, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, and adjunct Assistant Professor, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. A health sociologist, Peri has focused her research on employment and work as social determinants of health, and on pharmaceutical use across the life course. In her research, Peri seeks to make explicit the ways in which pharmaceuticals are subject to social, political and economic forces that influence who accesses them and to what outcome. Kath Ryan is Professor Emerita of the School of Pharmacy, University of Reading. She is an academic pharmacist and experienced qualitative researcher who has devoted her career, along with international colleagues, to the development of SocialPharmacy as a discipline for improved understanding of the use of medicines. |