The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader

by Sergio Sismondo (editor), Jeremy A. Greene (Editor)

The Pharmaceutical Studies Reader is an engaging survey of the field that brings together provocative, multi-disciplinary scholarship examining the interplay of medical science, clinical practice, consumerism, and the healthcare marketplace.

296 pages, Hardcover

First published March 2, 2015

Reviews

[I Read, Therefore I Blog · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sergio Sismondo and Jeremy A Greene have pulled together 17 papers drawing on anthropology, history and sociology to look at the interaction between the pharmaceutical and medical research industries and consumerism in an anthology that's fascinating and frightening but also very US centric and filled with academic jargon, which makes it quite dense and difficult to get through.