Precipitating pharmakologies and capital entrapments: Narcolepsy and the strange cases of provigil and xyrem

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 11-30

  Wolf Meyer, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biopolitics; Pharmaceuticals; Pharmakon; Sleep

Indexed keywords

BENZHYDRYL DERIVATIVE; CENTRAL DEPRESSANT AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; MODAFINIL; OXYBATE SODIUM;

ADULT; ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG INDUSTRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOLEPSY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SOMNOLENCE;

ADJUVANTS, ANESTHESIA; ADULT; ADVERTISING AS TOPIC; BENZHYDRYL COMPOUNDS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DISORDERS OF EXCESSIVE SOMNOLENCE; DRUG INDUSTRY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NARCOLEPSY; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION; SLEEP DEPRIVATION; SODIUM OXYBATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 61449106002     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740802640529     Document Type: Article

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