Language, Pharmacy and Society

The Sounds of Local Knowledges and the Linguistic Logistics of Science

Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

212 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-98968-6 (ISBN)

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This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture.

Gonzalez Rodriguez charts the development of the language of pharmacy from the mid-19th century onward, drawing on data from Icelandic and Spanish natural language corpora, historical sources, and contemporary data. The book brings together scholarship from sociolinguistics, media, and cultural studies, and the history of science to highlight the possibilities afforded by an interdisciplinary approach to pharmacy-related language.

The book will benefit readers by providing a deeper understanding of the intersection between language, science, and culture, making it especially valuable for students and scholars in sociolinguistics, history of science, medical humanities, and cultural studies.

Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Transcription Symbols

Introduction

1. Linguistic Logistics

1.1. Polyfunctionality of Language

1.2. Logistics and Linguistics

2. Science, Materia Medica and Words

2.1. Chemical Sounds

2.2. Pharmacognosy and Local Knowledge

3. Morphology and Pharmaceuticals

3.1. Infixes, Identities and References

3.2. Pharmaceutically Nominal and Nominally Pharmaceutical

3.3. Sociolinguistics of Pharmacy

4. Novelty, Lexicon and Medicines

4.1. In Terms of Science

4.2. Branding, Pharmaceuticalization, and Translation

5. Linguistic By-Products of Pharmacy

5.1. The Sounds of Sexual Pharmacy

5.2. Psychoactive Substances Slang

5.3. Pharmaceutical Aural and Oral Side Effects

Conclusion

Appendix

References

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.5.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Health Humanities
Zusatzinfo	9 Tables, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-98968-8 / 1032989688
ISBN-13	978-1-032-98968-6 / 9781032989686
Zustand	Neuware