Download or read book Viagro Blue written by Perry Aayr and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty years before Viagra, 44288, An Ohio Mental Patient and author of the amazing Quatrain, Some Die Mad, conceives of Viagro, a pill to help male erections which goes terribly wrong and wrecks (creates?) the life of a New York insurance company actuary called Millard Fillmore. We all never got to see Vincent Van Gogh pen some cartoons for the New Yorker but this is probably the next best thing. Prepare to fall off your sofa.
Download or read book The Rise of Viagra written by Meika Loe and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on interviews with men who take the drug, their wives, doctors and pharmacists as well as scientists and researchers in the field, this fascinating account provides an intimate history of the Viagra's effect on America.
Download or read book The Viagra Ad Venture written by Jay Baglia and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the FDA approved Viagra in March 1998, the «little blue pill» has been prescribed to over twenty million men. The Viagra Ad Venture: Masculinity, Media, and the Performance of Sexual Health chronicles the story of Viagra as reported in our nation's news outlets and promoted by Pfizer Pharmaceutical's marketing materials. In this critical discourse analysis, author Jay Baglia uses feminist and performance theory to uncover the meaning of Viagra and its relationship to performances of masculinity. At stake are the ways in which we construct normalcy, particularly as it relates to health, sexuality, gender, and the body. This book fits well in a variety of classes including gender studies, media studies, research methods, feminist theory, human sexuality, and health communication.
Download or read book Machine Learning written by Peter Flach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-20 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all the main approaches in state-of-the-art machine learning research, this will set a new standard as an introductory textbook.
Download or read book Glocal Pharma written by Ericka Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license. An exploration of how global pharmaceutical products are localized - of what happens when they become ‘glocal’ - this book examines the tensions that exist between a global pharmaceutical market and the locally bounded discourses and regulations encountered as markets are created for new drugs in particular contexts. Employing the case study of the emergence, representation and regulation of Viagra in the Swedish market, Glocal Pharma offers analyses of commercial material, medical discourses and legal documents to show how a Swedish, Viagra-consuming subject has been constructed in relation to the drug and how Viagra is imagined in relation to the Swedish man. Engaging with debates about pharmaceuticalization, the authors consider the ways in which new identities are created around drugs, the redefinition of health problems as sites of pharmaceutical treatment and changes in practices of governance to reflect the entrance of pharmaceuticals to the market. With attention to ‘local’ contexts, it reveals elements in the nexus of pharmaceutcalization that are receptive to cultural elements as new products become embedded in local markets. An empirically informed study of the the ways in which the presence of a drug can alter the concept of a disease and its treatment, understandings of who suffers from it and how to cure it - both locally and internationally - this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and science and technology studies with interests in globalization, pharmaceuticals, gender and the sociology of medicine.
Download or read book Intersections of Law and Computational Intelligence in Health Governance written by Vig, Komal and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intelligent technologies have vastly improved the efficiency of healthcare industries and intersections of law and governance. Computational intelligence provides effective tools for data management, contract analysis, legal research, and algorithm development. However, with the integration of computational intelligence in health governance, considerable legal concerns beg further exploration. Intersections of Law and Computational Intelligence in Health Governance examines computational intelligence related to healthcare and governance approaches. It addresses issues of healthcare data analysis and storage by presenting solutions using medical computational intelligence techniques. This book covers topics such as healthcare accessibility, medical law, deep learning, and drug discovery and classification, and is a valuable resource for lawyers, policy makers, healthcare workers, medical professionals, academicians, and researchers.
Download or read book Sex Lies and Pharmaceuticals written by Ray Moynihan and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Sydney, Australia: Allen & Unwin Pty. Ltd.
Download or read book Prescription TV written by Joy V. Fuqua and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of television as a therapeutic device, Joy V. Fuqua describes how TVs came to make hospitals seem more like home and, later, "medicalized" the modern home. She examines the introduction of television into the private hospital room in the late 1940s and 1950s and then moves forward several decades to consider the direct-to-consumer prescription drug commercials legalized in 1997. Fuqua explains how, as hospital administrators and designers sought ways of making the hospital a more inviting, personalized space, TV sets came to figure in the architecture and layout of health care facilities. Television manufacturers seized on the idea of therapeutic TV, specifying in their promotional materials how TVs should be used in the hospital and positioned in relation to the viewer. With the debut of direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising in the late 1990s, television assumed a much larger role in the medical marketplace. Taking a case-study approach, Fuqua uses her analysis of an ad campaign promoting Pfizer's Viagra to illustrate how television, and later the Internet, turned the modern home into a clearinghouse for medical information, redefined and redistributed medical expertise and authority, and, in the process, created the contemporary consumer-patient.
Download or read book The Naughty Nineties written by David Friend and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2017-09-12 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sexual history of the 1990s when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars -- and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens. The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture. In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams. The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra.
Download or read book Or written by T. J. Toney and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-12-14 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh fable of choice and consequence, or is about a boy-from-the-hood made good whos dancing the corporate tap dance by day and living on the down low by night. Growing up in the Detroit ghetto, Dante Ellison wanted to be Mayor of Detroit. But at 30, hes disillusioned with politics and career. Worse yet, hes worried that hes losing touch with his blackness. His suspicious girlfriend, his WASPy ex-roommate and a drug dealing politician are all waiting for Dante to find a way to make his life workto their advantage. Luckily, Dante has a talent for picking his way through this not so black and white, not so straight and narrow world.
Download or read book Sheer Dynamite written by Jennifer Skully and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a family of bona fide psychics, Opal Smith feels like, well, a misfit. So when she sees a phantom body falling from an overpass, she's thrilled because this is her first honest-to-God vision. Unfortunately, the guy she's just rear-ended doesn't share her excitement, particularly when she enlists his reluctant help in preventing her vision from becoming reality. He is a man who's had too much "crazy" in his life… But Jack Davis is still determined to save Opal from her folly. Of course, Jack didn't bargain on Opal's matchmaking Grandma Blue, who claims he's the reincarnation of "Dynamite" Davis—her all-time favorite race-car driver. Or that Opal's caring demeanor would punch all his knight-in-shining-armor buttons—and a few other "hot" buttons, as well! Or that she's about to show him that whether he's truly Dynamite Davis or just plain old Jack, she makes his life complete….
Download or read book Bodies in Flux written by Barbara Braid and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-08-26 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an insight into a selection of current issues of embodiment and other related aspects, such as identity, gender, disability, or sexuality, discussed on the basis of examples from contemporary culture and social life. Inspired by Donna Haraway’s concept of the cyborg as a transgressor of boundaries, the book examines fluidity of post-human bodies – from cyber relations to others and to self, enabled by the latest technologies, through fragmented, prostheticised, monstrous or augmented body of popular culture and lifestyles, to the dis/utopian fantasies offered by literary texts – showing how difficult it still is in current culture to let go of the stable boundaries towards the post-gender world Haraway imagines. Contributors are Dawn Woolley, Anna Pilińska, Barbara Braid, Jana Reynolds, Julio Ernesto Guerrero Mondaca, Ana Gabriela Magallanes Rodríguez, Katharina Vester, Wojciech Śmieja and Hanan Muzaffar.
Download or read book Red Ocean Traps Harvard Business Review Classics written by W. Chan Kim and published by Harvard Business Review Press. This book was released on 2017-05-30 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As established markets become less profitable, companies increasingly need to find ways to create and capture new markets. Despite much investment and commitment, most firms struggle to do this. What, exactly, is getting in their way? World-renowned professors W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, the authors of the best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy have spent over a decade exploring that question. They have seen that the trouble lies in managers' mental models--ingrained assumptions and theories about the way the world works. Though these models may work perfectly well in mature markets, they undermine executives' attempts to discover uncontested new spaces with ample potential (blue oceans) and keep companies firmly anchored in existing spaces where competition is bloody (red oceans). In this bound version of their bestselling Harvard Business Review classic article, they describe how to break free of these red ocean traps. To do that, managers need to: (1) Focus on attracting new customers, not pleasing current customers; (2) Worry less about segmentation and more about what different segments have in common; (3) Understand that market creation is not synonymous with either technological innovation or creative destruction; and (3) Stop focusing on premium versus low-cost strategies. The Harvard Business Review Classics series offers you the opportunity to make seminal Harvard Business Review articles a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world--and will have a direct impact on you today and for years to come.
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Download or read book Drugs Society and Behavior 1999 2000 written by Hugh Wilson and published by McGraw-Hill/Dushkin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology examines the evolution of drugs in the US, discussing cocaine, heroine, marijuana, alcohol and other major drugs. It also explores some developing patterns of drug use and its implications, and reviews criminal behaviour perpetuated by drugs.
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Download or read book Aging in America A to Z written by Adriel Bettelheim and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter for Congressional Quarterly's CQ Weekly provides an encyclopedia of the questions and potential answers facing seniors and their children now. In over 250 articles, she looks at public policy issues, and real-world problems of seniors and younger Americans who must care directly for parents or share indirectly in the economic and social cost. The cross-referencing is extensive.
