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" Gendered moods : "
Elizabeth Ettore and Elianne Riska.
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BL
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1014330
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b768700
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| Main Entry
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Ettorre, Elizabeth,1948-
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Gendered moods : : psychotropics and society /\ Elizabeth Ettore and Elianne Riska.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1995.
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1 online resource (x, 177 pages)
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0203418662
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: 0415082137
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: 0415082145
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: 9780203418666
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: 9780415082136
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: 9780415082143
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0203418662
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0415082137
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0415082145
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-168) and indexes.
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| Contents
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Introduction: psychotropics and women -- Setting the scene -- New challenges: the medical and sociological discourses -- Social scientific perspectives: the 'users' and the 'providers' -- Making gender visible: seeing 'layers' in the social construction of psychotropic drug use -- Advertising as a representation of gendered moods -- Analysing long-term use: users' narratives -- Gendered moods and the lay culture -- Dependency and the health care system.
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Tranquillisers are prescribed to almost twice as many women as men yet little research has been has been carried out on the gendered character of drug use. A much needed introduction to a neglected area of study.
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Psychotropic drugs.
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Women-- Drug use.
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Psychotropic drugs.
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Women-- Drug use.
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| Dewey Classification
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615/.788
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RM315.E88 1995eb
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Riska, Elianne.
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