Pharmaceutical Self: The Global Shaping of Experience in an Age of Psychopharmacology

Author/Contributor(s):	Jenkins, Janis H.
Publisher:	SAR Press
Date:	3/21/2011
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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?