Gendered moods : psychotropics and society /

"Tranquillisers are prescribed twice as often to women as men, yet little gender-based research has been carried out on the social context of their use." "Gendered Moods offers the first feminist analysis of the gendered character of psychotropic drug use, based on studies of long-ter...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ettorre, E. M.
Other Authors: Riska, Elianne
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
Subjects:
Psychotropic drugs.
Women > Drug use.
Affect (Psychology)
Sex factors in disease.
Psychotropic Drugs > therapeutic use
Psychotropic Drugs
Affect
Sex Factors
Women > psychology
Psychotropes.
Affect (Psychologie)
Maladies > Facteurs sexuels.
MEDICAL > Pain Medicine.
MEDICAL > Psychiatry > Psychopharmacology.
Psychotropic drugs
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: psychotropics and women
  • setting the scene
  • 2. New challenges: the medical and sociological discourses
  • 3. Social scientific perspectives: the 'users' and the 'providers'
  • 4. Making gender visible: seeing 'layers' in the social construction of psychotropic drug use
  • 5. Advertising as a representation of gendered moods
  • 6. Analysing long-term use: users' narratives
  • 7. Gendered moods and the lay culture
  • 8. Dependency and the health care system.

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