Pharmaceutical Hope

摘要

Pharmaceutical Reason: Knowledge and Value in Global Psychiatry, by Andrew Lakoff, Cambridge University Press, 2005, 206 pp., £18. 'Do you know the one about the psychiatrist on a plane?' An epidemiologist in the lobby of London's Langham Hotel, visiting town for a psychopharmacology conference, has asked the question. How better to pass the time until the pharmaceutical sales representatives arrive than tell psychiatrist jokes? He leans closer and continues. So, a man is sitting on a plane. He's in seat 3B. Suddenly he starts shaking and clutching his chest. He says, 'I think I'm having a heart attack'.