From Printing Press to Pharmaceutical Representative: A Social History of Drug Advertising and Promotion

1992 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shirley Stallings
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Pharmaceutical Drugs ◽  
Pharmaceutical Representative ◽  
Drug Advertising ◽  
Health Values ◽  
Traditional Health ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Advertising And Promotion

With only a few years left in the twentieth century, a multiplicity of controversies encompass drug advertising and promotion. Have marketing techniques regarding pharmaceutical drugs, proprietary medicines, alcohol, and tobacco really changed over time and disrupted the value structure of society? Past, present, and future affect people; not one aspect of time, but all aspects, bear upon the present. Drug advertising and promotion has maintained vitality and robustness through time by promoting the public's desire for a continuity of familiar and traditional health values. By using the nature of a perpetually changing environment, advertising has advanced drugs as symbols of health. Such symbolic activity has provided hope to people regarding their own power and control over pain and illness. Through time, drug advertising became institutionalized.

“Call Me Mama”

2012 ◽  
Vol 642 (1) ◽  
pp. 170-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Chihye Kim
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Korean American ◽  
Immigrant Workers ◽  
Undocumented Immigrant ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
Insight Into

Based on three years of participant observation, this article provides insight into the working relationship between a small business owner and undocumented immigrant workers at a Korean-Japanese restaurant. The case study focuses on a Korean American businesswoman who depends on the unpaid labor of family members and the cheap labor of undocumented immigrants. Using naturalistic ethnography, which consists of casual interactions and conversations with informants, the author relates the life history of the owner, Mrs. Kwon, who asks her employees to call her “Mama,” and analyzes her preference for undocumented immigrant workers. The article elucidates the ways she asserts power and control in the workplace.

scholarly journals Inspectors and Auditors: Some Sources of Andrey Platonov’s Work of the 1920s

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 274-299
Author(s):  
Maria V. Osipenko
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
Life Threatening ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control

The article examines the work of Andrey Platonov of the 1920s in the context of the history of the Soviet state and Communist Party administration departments. Allusions to the activity of these authorities are present in many of Platonov’s works (“Gorod Gradov,” “Administrativnoe Estestvoznanie,” “Usomnivshiysya Makar,” “Nadlezhachie Meropriyatiya (Socialnaya Satira nashih dney),” etc.). Most of the references relate to anti-bureaucratic and rationalization activities of these power and control authorities. The effort to perfect bureaucratic machine is represented in Platonov’s work as pseudoproductive, pseudo-scientific, and meaningless activity. Yet, it is also shown how such pseudo-organization can become real life-threatening force.

Dress and Gulf imagery in two Malayalam films: Pathemari and Marubhoomiyile Aana

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Musthafa Mubashir ◽  
M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Symbolic Capital ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
The Status ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Control

Malayalam films since the 1970s have captured the history of Gulf migration from Kerala, which occurs primarily due to the desperate need of its people for jobs and for money. Predominantly, the discourses of migrants in the films are embedded in various things, including dress from the Gulf, the insignia of opulence that depict the status of the migrants in the public sphere. Using thematic analysis of two Malayalam films, Pathemari and Marubhoomiyile Aana, this study argues that the motif of the Gulf is associated with power and control in the cultural discourse of Kerala. Drawing on the semiotic analysis of Barthes, we contend that the replacement of mundu, a traditional attire of Kerala men, by trousers, is one among several mythical markers of modernity, including perfumes and watches brought from the Gulf. The performativity and materiality of dress in these two films produce imageries of the Gulf by which the wearers, mostly male, accumulate social and symbolic capital and assert dominance in the film’s narration.

Photographic Passport Biometry

Public ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (60) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Liv Hausken
Keyword(s):  
High Resolution ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Mobility ◽  
Facial Image ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Physical Measurements ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
Functional Distribution ◽  
And Control

When ICAO approved a new standard for international passports, they recommended including a high-resolution facial image on a chip in addition to the visual portrait on the identity page. Accordingly, there is, in a certain sense, two images in the current passport, one on the chip, the other visually displayed. In this article I relate the functional distribution between these two images to the nineteenth-century mugshot and argue that the photographically generated images in the current passport represent a subdued tension between two parallel paths in the history of photography: depiction and measurement. By looking at the arguments for facial recognition technologies in today's passport as specified by ICAO, I argue that the current regulation of international mobility downplays the importance of physical measurements and hides this behind photography’s more familiar function, namely depiction. This contributes to conceal biometrics as a tool for power and control in today’s society.

scholarly journals Writing Back by The Other: Breaking from The Hegemony Imposed

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Shreya Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
First Language ◽  
The Other ◽  
Native Languages ◽  
The Third ◽  
Power And Control ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Masses ◽  
And Control

One’s first language is said to play a key role in the maintenance of one’s cultural and ethnic identity. We express our folktales, myths, proverbs and the very history of our culture and heritage in the language. It could have perhaps also been one of the reasons that the imperial powers tried to hallmark the native languages with their own and employ the use of language as a key tool to impose their power and control over the colonised. There seemed two ways for the natives to fight back- one being of rejection and the other of subversion. Then of course there was the third option-to write back in the language of the Coloniser with the motive to reach out and appeal to the masses across the globe about their plight. The challenge, however, was to keep their essence, their identity alive in the language of majority.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob A. C. Remes
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
Social History ◽  
Disaster Relief ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Informal Communities ◽  
And Control ◽  
To Receive

This book offers a social history of the tension between the state's often bumbling attempts to help and control, on one hand, and citizens' work to receive that help and reject control during disasters, on the other. Focusing on the Salem fire of 1914 and the Halifax explosion of 1917, it examines issues of power and politics that accompanied disaster citizenship during the Progressive Era that saw survivors develop networks of solidarity and obligation to help each other. The book is divided into three sections: the first is about individuals in the first hours and days of each of the Salem and Halifax disasters; the second explores how informal communities like families and neighborhoods responded to the disasters and to the state over the span of weeks and months; and the third section looks at how Salemites and Haligonians created formal, explicit political demands and institutions from the informal and implicit politics of disaster relief and aid. The last section also considers how churches and unions responded to the disasters and to the growth of the state.

scholarly journals Zločin i mentalni poremećaj na suprotnim obalama Jadrana

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vanni D’Alessio ◽  
Filip Čeč
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
History Of Psychiatry ◽  
Criminal Behaviour ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
Moral Insanity ◽  
Criminal Offender ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Control ◽  
The 19Th Century

In the 19th century, fervid debates arose in the young psychiatric science about how to deal with and to scientifically categorize human behaviour which was perceived as dangerous to society, and as criminal. There were two concepts that stood out in these transnationally held discussions; namely moral insanity and later on, psychopathy. Following recent approaches in the cultural and social history of psychiatry, we understand moral insanity and psychopathy as social constructs, which are determined by the evolution in psychiatric knowledge, and also by laws, codes and social norms of particular historical timeframes. Our task is to discuss the evolution and adoption of these concepts in two linguistically different, but still historically profoundly entangled regions, namely in Italian and Croatian psychiatric discourses at the turn from the 19th to the 20th century. Our analysis of two of the most important medical and psychiatric journals of the time shows that psychiatric debates on antisocial and criminal behaviour were in numerous ways entangled and shaped by the way the two societies scientifically, legally, and institutionally struggled over the question of how to detect and control the mentally incapacitated criminal offender.

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