Description
“Medicines and Society” examines the development, prescribing and use of pharmaceuticals in the context of patients’ everyday lives and industralized societies.This book offers a broad approach which includes self care and complementary medicine. It features balanced treatment of benefits and harms of medicines. It is accessible and well written.Britten places medicines in their social context, and considers the range of influences on prescribing and the sociology of health and illness. Exploring issues such as ‘the meaning of medicines’ and ‘alternative treatments’, the book provides important reading for students across a range of disciplines interested in medicines and society.
