Gendering drugs: feminist studies of pharmaceuticals

Abstract

Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- 1: Introduction -- 1 Sex/Gender -- 2 Methods and Material -- 3 Overview -- References -- Part I: Making Scientific and Medical Truths -- 2: Alzheimer's in the Making: A Feminist Laboratory Study of Alzheimer's Disease -- 1 Background -- 2 AD in the Lab: A Precursor to AD Pharmaceuticals -- 3 Sexing the Flies, Making Alzheimer's -- 3.1 Virgin Flies -- 4 A Feminist Take on AD as a Science in the Making -- 5 Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Pharmaceuticalized Prostate -- 1 Prostate Problems, Briefly -- 2 Intra-acting Actants -- 3 Pharmaceuticalized Prostates -- References -- 4: New Puberty -- New Trans: Children, Pharmaceuticals and Politics -- 1 Early Feminist Work on Medicine and Trans Subjectivities -- 2 Contemporary Trans: Theorizing the Guinea Pig Self -- 3 The Medicalization of Childhood Trans -- 4 Learning from Early Feminism -- References -- Part II: Creating Subjectivities for "Patients" in Advertising -- 5: Prescribing Relational Subjectivities -- 1 Methods, Materials -- 2 Theoretical Inspirations -- 2.1 Coupling Care -- 2.2 Decoupling That Trailer -- 2.3 Bedtime Stories -- 3 Conclusion: Pharma-Mediated Relationship Practices -- References -- 6: You Will Protect Your Daughter, Right? -- 1 Methodology and Materials -- 1.1 Parents Calculating Cervical Cancer Risk -- 2 Parent-Daughter Relations Through Tropes of Nature -- 2.1 The Pharmaceuticalized Parent-Daughter Relationship -- References -- Part III: Different HPV Vaccines -- 7: Evidence, Sex and State Paternalism: Intersecting Global Connections in the Introduction of HPV Vaccines in Colombia -- 1 Anticipation, HPV Vaccines and Intersectionality: Coproducing Drugs and Subjectivity -- 2 Introducing HPV Vaccines in Colombia: Not Just a Matter of Evidence and Efficiency