Introduction to the Special Section: The Anthropology of Psychopharmaceuticals: Cultural and Pharmacological Efficacies in Context

Schlosser, Allison V.; Ninnemann, Kristi

doi:10.1007/s11013-012-9249-z

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“…Outside the emerging movement of personalized pharmacogenomics, psychiatry no longer has a ready-made individualizing modelVlike psychoanalysis of the 1950sVto address the complexity and the individuality of patient response. Indeed, much of the drug research today that addresses psychological and sociocultural variables has not come from within psychiatry but from anthropologists working outside psychiatry proper (Schlosser and Ninnemann, 2012). In addition, psychopharmaceutical development and testing today are intimately tied to their major source of funding, the pharmaceutical industry (Healy, 2002;Tobbell, 2011).…”

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“…However, the narrow focus on rational targets in the body has resulted in practitioners losing sight of the larger psychosocial context in which drugs are taken (Greene et al, 2012). This historical examination of psychopharmacology illustrates the present-day need to socialize and contextualize interventions, such as pharmaceuticals, that are too often understood in a reductive biomedical framework (Schlosser and Ninnemann, 2012). The psychosocial pharmacology of the 1950s suggests an interdisciplinary path toward the (re)creation of a holistic model of drug response that acknowledges the biological, psychological, and sociocultural world in which drugs are embedded.…”

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Drugs in Context

Ramos

2013

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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This article demonstrates that psychoanalysis and socially oriented psychiatry were crucial to the understanding and adoption of the first effective psychopharmaceuticals in North American psychiatry. In the 1950s and the early 1960s, psychoanalysts, socially oriented psychiatrists, and biologists collaborated, debated, and organized interdisciplinary conferences to situate the biochemistry of new psychopharmaceuticals, such as chlorpromazine, in the broader psychosocial context of patients' lives. Psychoanalytical and sociological perspectives not only helped American psychiatrists explain the mechanism of drug action in research but also established the professional authority of psychiatrists over the new pharmaceuticals. As modern pharmacology narrows its focus to microscopic targets in the body, I argue that this early drug research illustrates the present-day need for holistic and interdisciplinary approaches to drug response that acknowledge the psychosocial significance of psychiatric medication in the lives of individuals.

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Drugs in Context

Ramos

2013

Journal of Nervous &Amp; Mental Disease

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“…Jenkins (2011) aponta que cerca de um quarto de adultos nos Estados Unidos da América utilizam algum medicamento psicoativo, incluso Ritalina e Concerta. Entretanto, esse quadro não é algo específico de tal país, sendo que se espalha por diversos países da Ásia, África e América do Sul (Rose, 2004;Schlosser & Ninneman, 2012). De acordo com o Ministério de Saúde e Proteção Social da Colômbia (2015), a prevalência do TDAH no país é de 3%, o que corresponde aproximadamente 317.665 casos.…”

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“Ele foi orçado, mas não planejado!”: a infância na contemporaneidade

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O presente estudo traz algumas reflexões sobre o modo como a infância tem sido tratada na contemporaneidade na nossa sociedade. Objetiva contribuir com apontamentos que vão desde as propostas educativas elaboradas ao longo da história para a infância até aspectos relativos à presença da criança na mídia, no consumo e, finalmente, na cada vez mais frequente patologização da vida infantil. Questões como-até que ponto a sociedade atual, com suas mídias e apelos para o consumo e o foco exacerbado na adultização tem cuidado de suas crianças? Por que as crianças estão cada vez mais sendo medicadas? O que fazer diante desse panorama atual em que se torna evidente uma sociedade altamente medicalizada e medicalizante?-são tratadas no texto, a partir da revisão da literatura pertinente. A infância é reconhecidamente uma etapa fundamental para o desenvolvimento de todos os seres humanos e as considerações ao longo do estudo evidenciam como o brincar, vislumbrado como a atividade própria da infância, vem sendo desconsiderado na atualidade, em favor de atividades do mundo adulto num preocupante retorno da imagem criança como adulto em miniatura.

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“…Recent work in pharmaceutical anthropology (e.g., Schlosser and Ninnemann ) calls for the need to understand pharmaceutical efficacy in relation to the biological, sociological, and structural factors that shape individual responses to drugs. The cases discussed here reveal new fault lines through which the pharmakon exerts its influence, collapsing the distinctions between biological and sociological factors.…”

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“The Same Thing in a Different Box”: Similarity and Difference in Pharmaceutical Sex Hormone Consumption and Marketing

Sanabria

2014

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The contraceptive pill has given way to a multitude of products, kinds of packaging, and modes of administration. This article draws on work on the pharmaceutical copy, extending the analysis to differentiating between forms of administration for contraceptive medicines as well as between brand-name drugs, generics, and similares, as they are known in Brazil. It explores how Brazilian prescribers and users-within the divergent structural constraints afforded by private and public health-apprehend and negotiate distinctions between the drugs available to them. This ethnographic account of hormone use reveals new fault lines through which the pharmakon exerts its influence. The attention that industry places on pharmacodynamics as it produces new products from similar compounds suggests that pharmaceutical effects are at once symbolic and real. The article concludes with a reflection on the future of the generic form in a field increasingly crowded by branded copies.

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Introduction to the Special Section: The Anthropology of Psychopharmaceuticals: Cultural and Pharmacological Efficacies in Context

Cited by 17 publications

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Drugs in Context

Drugs in Context

“Ele foi orçado, mas não planejado!”: a infância na contemporaneidade

“The Same Thing in a Different Box”: Similarity and Difference in Pharmaceutical Sex Hormone Consumption and Marketing

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