BIRGITTE BRUUN Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals.

BIRGITTE BRUUN Service of the Engine: pharmaceuticals, moralities, and sex in a Malawian fishing village. Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers (paperback 1300 [euro] ISBN 90 5260 083 X) 2002 96 pp

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

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