Pharmaceutical Self

The Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology

Edited by Janis H. Jenkins

1. Introduction
   Janis H. Jenkins
2. Psychopharmaceutical Self and Imaginary in the Social Field of Psychiatric Treatment
   Janis H. Jenkins
3. Trauma in Postconflict Aceh and Psychopharmaceuticals as a Medium of Exchange
   Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
4. “CATKINE…Asylum, Laboratory, Pharmacy, Pharmacist, I and the Cure”: Pharmaceutical Subjectivity in the Global South
   João Biehl
5. Polyspherical Pharmaceuticals: Global Psychiatry, Capitalism, and Space
   Stefan Ecks
6. The Complexities of Psychopharmaceutical Hegemonies in Indonesia
   Byron J. Good
7. Gender Stereotypes in the Diagnosis of Depression: A Systematic Content Analysis of Medical Records
   Jonathan M. Metzl
8. Medication on the Street: Homeless Women in Uptown Chicago
   Tanya Luhrmann
9. Sleepless in America
   Emily Martin
10. The Addicted Self and the Pharmaceutical Self: Ecologies of Will, Information, and Power in Junkies, Addicts, and Patients
    A. Jamie Saris

• “At the intersection of the growing domains of research on the permanent reinvention of the self and the empire of the drug industry in the contemporary world, Janis Jenkins’s edited volume brings together the best specialists of both fields to open the promising territory of an anthropology of psychopharmaceuticals. With its unique global perspective, the book explores the way in which psychotropic medicines against insomnia, depression, or psychosis affect bodies and minds but also transform the moral and political meanings of suffering and trauma.”
  —Didier Fassin, the James D. Wolfensohn Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton), coauthor of The Empire of Trauma
• “Pharmaceutical Self plumbs the biosocial complexity inherent in the globalization of psychoactive drugs. The authors, ranking figures in medical anthropology, explore the collision of structural violence—poverty, gender inequality, discrimination, and disasters both natural and unnatural—and neuropsychiatry, and how social forces become embodied in adverse health outcomes and new subjectivities in psychiatric patients’ local worlds. The thematic, theoretical, and geographic breadth of this volume—with experience-near accounts from settings as different as underresourced clinics in Indonesia to homeless shelters in Chicago—provides valuable contributions to the burgeoning anthropology of psychopharmacology. Essential reading for any student of global mental health and for students of public health more generally.”
  —Paul Farmer, Chair, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School

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