Fluid Drugs: Revisiting the Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals
Fluid Drugs: Revisiting the Anthropology of Pharmaceuticals
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DOI：
10.1146/annurev-anthro-102116-041539
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2017-01-01
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Sanabria, Emilia
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作者：
Hardon, Anita;Sanabria, Emilia
这篇综述讨论了人类学和科学技术研究 (STS) 交叉领域越来越多的学术成果，这些学术成果研究了药物如何在实验室、治疗环境和日常生活中发挥功效。这些文献深入探讨了商业利益和社会关注如何塑造所实现的药物效应的种类，以及如何因道德关注而阻碍某些功效。这里汇集的工作揭示了监管机构和卫生政策制定者如何寻求稳定药物作用，而在护理第一线，药剂师、卫生工作者和使用者则修改剂量和适应症，以根据具体情况调整药物作用。我们表明，在其社会化之前不存在纯粹的（药物）对象。药品不是“被发现”的；它们是根据不断变化的环境而被创造和再创造的。这篇综述概述了检查此类液体药物的人种学和 STS 研究的五个关键领域。
This review discusses a growing body of scholarship at the intersection of anthropology and science and technology studies (STS) that examines how drugs are rendered efficacious in laboratories, therapeutic settings, and everyday lives. This literature foregrounds insights into how commercial interests and societal concerns shape the kinds of pharmaceutical effects that are actualized and how some efficacies are blocked in response to moral concerns. The work brought together here reveals how regulatory institutions and health policy makers seek to stabilize pharmaceutical actions while, on the front lines of care, pharmacists, health workers, and users tinker with dosages and indications to tailor pharmaceutical actions to specific circumstances. We show that there is no pure (pharmaceutical) object that precedes its socialization. Pharmaceuticals are not "discovered"; they are made and remade in relation to shifting contexts. This review outlines five key areas of ethnographic and STS research that examines such fluid drugs.