Birgitte Bruun, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village.(Book Review)

BIRGITTE BRUUN, Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (paperback 13.00 [euro], ISBN 90 5260 083 X). 2002, 96 pp.

This book, in Aksant's Community Drug Use Study series, takes the simple idea of illicitly self-prescribing and taking (without the regular partner's knowledge) 'CIBA' (various antibiotics to which this old pharmaceutical name has been attached) to 'prevent' or 'cure' sexually transmitted diseases and creates a grand theory--involving purity, gender relations and sex-related ...

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