Nummer / Issue 23 ( 2 )

SPECIAL ISSUE:

“Life stages of Medicines”
Theme editors: Sjaak van der Geest & Kerry Chamberlain

Editor’s note
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Theme articles / Thema-artikelen

SJAAK VAN DER GEEST & KERRY CHAMBERLAIN
Researching the life stages of medicines: Introduction
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QUENTIN RAVELLI
Medico-marketing between use value and exchange value: How political economy sheds light on the biography of medicines
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JÉRÔME GREFFION
Mastering time: How doctors and pharmaceutical sales representatives interact and communicate
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MARIE-LOUISE FLACKE
Communicating with patients:
How can information leaflets for medicines be made more readable?
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BERTRAND LEBOUCHÉ, JOSEPH JOSY LÉVY, KIM ENGLER, NORBERT GILMORE & JEAN-PIERRE ROUTY
‘Treatment as prevention’: Exploring the views of Quebec HIV specialists on its implications for individuals and society
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CARINE BAXERRES
Local/global articulations and the high use of pharmaceuticals in Cotonou, Benin
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KERRY CHAMBERLAIN, HELEN MADDEN, JONATHAN GABE, KEVIN DEW & PAULINE NORRIS
Forms of resistance to medications within New Zealand households
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Non-theme articles

KLAARTJE KLAVER & ANDRIES BAART
Attentive care in a hospital: Towards an empirical ethics of care
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GERHARD NIJHOF
Over problemen met het ongewone: De verstarde gezichtsexpressie van mensen met ziekte van Parkinson als voorbeeld
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ANA MARIA OCHOA
Gender, eating habits and body practices in Medellín, Colombia
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FREERK HEULE & JANUS OOMEN
Granting wishes to terminally ill children: A rite of passage
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NEWS
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Recent dissertations on health, culture and society
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Books received in 2011
Bibliography

BOEKBESPREKINGEN - BOOK REVIEWS
tekst van de volgende besprekingen - full text of reviews

English JAMES D. FAUBION, An anthropology of ethics (Constantine Steven Loum Labongo)

English GEMMA C.M. JANSEN, ANN OLGA KOLOSKI-OSTROW & ERIC M. MOORMANN (eds.), Roman toilets: Their archaeology and cultural history (Sjaak van der Geest)

English MICHI KNECHT, SCOUT BURGHARDT, ANNA F. HEINITZ & SEBASTIAN MOHR (eds.), Samenbanken – Samenspender. Ethnographische und historische Perspektiven auf Männlichkeiten in der Reproduktionsmedizin (Viola Hörbst)

English ABDELWAHED MEKKI-BERRADA (ed.), L’Islam en anthropologie de la santé mentale. Théorie, ethnographie et clinique d’un regard alternatif (Victor Kouratovsky)

English OPPONG, C., P. ANTWI & K. WAERNESS (eds.), Care of the seriously sick and dying: Perspectives from Ghana (Astrid Bochow)

GER PALMBOOM, ARKO ODERWALD & KOOS NEUVEL, Door kanker getroffen: Een lexicon van de ervaring (Coleta Platenkamp)

English MIRANDA VAN REEUWIJK, Because of temptations: Children, sex and HIV/Aids in Tanzania (Anke van der Kwaak)

English IRIS SHIRIPINDA & ANOUKA VAN EERDEWIJK, Facing HIV in the Netherlands. Lived experiences of migrants living with HIV (Rosalijn Both).