However, L’automédication ou les mirages de l’autonomie reveals that taking pharmacotherapy into one’s own hands allows only a partial escape from the rule of profit and professionals, as the self-management of disorders continues to be based on a clinical rationale. David’s latest book, Pharmageddon, documents the riveting and terrifying story of how pharmaceutical companies have hijacked healthcare in America and the life-threatening results. He contrasts Dumit’s account of pharmaceutically dominated forms of life and Healy’s advocacy of a return to a prelapsarian medical practice not yet corrupted by big pharma with Sylvie Fainzang’s study of self-medication. Elsevier Health Sciences, Medical - 344 pages. It is the authors’ treatments of the role of drugs in changing conceptions of health and care, which attract Meyers’ interest. In both David Healy’s Pharmageddon and Joseph Dumit’s Drugs for Life, reviewer Todd Meyers finds much evidence for the prioritizing of financial gain over social need, but also expresses fatigue with the corresponding indignation. The predominance of corporate interests has provoked a social scientific literature often quite critical of contemporary pharmaceutical practices and their cultural incorporations.
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