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Pharmaceutical Self : The Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology
Overview
This book addresses a critical contemporary issue--the worldwide proliferation of pharmaceutical use. The contributors explore questions such as: How are culturally constituted selves transformed by regular ingestion of pharmaceutical drugs? Does being human increasingly come to mean not only oriented to drugs but also created and regulated by them? From the standpoint of cultural phenomenology, does this reshape human being?
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- ISBN-13: 9781934691380
- ISBN-10: 1934691380
- Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
- Publish Date: March 2011
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.8 pounds
- Page Count: 280
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