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The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries

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    Chapter 1 Medicines in Context: An Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Commercial Pharmaceutical Medicine and Medicalization: A Case Study from El Salvador
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    Chapter 3 Traditional Practitioners and Western Pharmaceuticals in Sri Lanka
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    Chapter 4 Medicines and Rural Health Services: An Experiment in the Dominican Republic
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    Chapter 5 Buying Drugs in Addis Ababa: A Quantitative Analysis
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    Chapter 6 ‘ Casi Como Doctor ’: Pharmacists and Their Clients in a Mexican Urban Context
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    Chapter 7 The Articulation of Formal and Informal Medicine Distribution in South Cameroon
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    Chapter 8 The Rise of the Modern Jamu Industry in Indonesia: A Preliminary Overview
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    Chapter 9 Culture and Pharmaceutics: Some Epistemological Observations on Pharmacological Systems in Ancient Europe and Medieval China
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    Chapter 10 The Use of Herbal and Biomedical Pharmaceuticals on Mauritius
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    Chapter 11 The Power of Medicines in East Africa
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    Chapter 12 Traditional Medication at Pregnancy and Childbirth in Madura, Indonesia
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    Chapter 13 The Reinterpretation and Distribution of Western Pharmaceuticals: An Example from the Mende of Sierra Leone
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    Chapter 14 Cultural Meanings of Oral Rehydration Salts in Jamaica
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    Chapter 15 Penicillin: An Ancient Ayurvedic Medicine
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    Chapter 16 Cultural Constructions of Efficacy
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    Chapter 17 Pharmaceutical Anthropology: Perspectives for Research and Application
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Title
The Context of Medicines in Developing Countries
Published by
Springer Netherlands, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-2713-1
ISBNs
978-9-40-107722-4, 978-9-40-092713-1
Editors

Geest, Sjaak, Whyte, Susan Reynolds

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Country Count As %
Unknown 29 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 24%
Student > Master 6 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 4 14%
Lecturer 3 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 7%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 2 7%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 13 45%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 3 10%
Arts and Humanities 2 7%
Medicine and Dentistry 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 4 14%