Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- The Pharmaceutical Nexus -- Globalizing Human Subjects Research -- The New Medical Oikumene -- Educating for Global Mental Health: The Adoption of SSRIs in Japan -- High Contact: Gifts and Surveillance in Argentina -- Addiction Markets: The Case of...

The health beliefs of people suffering from mental health problems are important. Such beliefs have been identified as key factors in models of health and illness behaviour, and may therefore indirectly influence clinical outcome. In addition, the increasing move towards patient-centred health...

The meaning of medication and the way in which people use medicines has been the focus of a number of studies in recent years. However, there has been little attention directed to the meaning and management of neuroleptic medication by people who have received a diagnosis of schizophrenia. This...

The social policy background to the proliferation of patient satisfaction surveys is a desire for increased patient representation and participation. Within this context, it is assumed that satisfaction surveys embody patients' evaluations of services. However, as most surveys report high...