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Pills, production and the symbolic code: Pharmaceuticals and the political economy of meaning in South Korea.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pills, production and the symbolic code: Pharmaceuticals and the political economy of meaning in South Korea./
Author:	Kim, Jim Yong.
Description:	349 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-03, Section: A, page: 0990.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-03A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9318701

Pills, production and the symbolic code: Pharmaceuticals and the political economy of meaning in South Korea.
Kim, Jim Yong.

Pills, production and the symbolic code: Pharmaceuticals and the political economy of meaning in South Korea. - 349 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-03, Section: A, page: 0990.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 1993.

This thesis explores the process by which the South Korean health care system has become centered around the production, prescription, dispensing and consumption of pharmaceuticals. The historical roots of the Korean health care system are traced in order to provide background for understanding the theoretically eclectic but pharmaceutical centered system. Ethnographic data is presented that illustrates the ways in which the practice of both pharmacists and physicians contribute to the process of pharmaceuticalization. While practitioners in both fields debate the most politically charged issues in Korean society, they do not question the pharmaceutical centered nature of their own practice. Medical anthropologists have witnessed this great demand for Western pharmaceuticals throughout the world but it is only recently that individual scholars have addressed the movement of pharmaceuticals at their fieldsites. Several of the recent major works in this field are examined in detail. In South Korea, a country which has clearly made the transition to becoming a mass-consuming post-industrial nation, trends in pharmaceutical consumption have been closely related to the success of advertising campaigns and in certain cases, specific campaigns have been responsible for creating entirely new categories of drugs. The role of advertising in the development of consumer capitalism is explored and an approach to the study of pharmaceuticals is employed which traces things as if they had "social lives." By tracing two substances through their respective lives, I illustrate the process through interested parties struggle to attach particular meanings to things. In the case of UDCA in South Korea, efforts to connect a synthetically derived bile acid to the historical figure of the bear and to the mystique embodied in the highly treasured woongdam or bear gall bladder have led to the meteoric rise of a small regional pharmaceutical manufacturer to the ranks of the top companies in the country.Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

Pills, production and the symbolic code: Pharmaceuticals and the political economy of meaning in South Korea.
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