By Sylvie Fainzang
The query of recourse to self-medication arises on the intersection of 2 in part opposed discourses: that of the general public experts, who recommend the perform basically for monetary purposes, and that of future health pros, who condemn it for worry that it could actually pose a chance to healthiness and dispossess the career of workmanship. This books examines the truth of self-medication in context and investigates the social therapy of the inspiration of autonomy ever found in the discourses selling this tradition.
Drawing on fieldwork carried out in France, the writer examines the fabric, cognitive, symbolic and social dimensions of the recourse to self-medication, contemplating the motivations and practices of the topics and what those show approximately their dating with the hospital, whereas addressing the query of open entry to medicinal drugs – an issue of heated debate among the actors involved on subject matters akin to competence, wisdom and accountability.
A rigorous research of the innovations followed by means of contributors to control the hazards of medications and raise their efficacy, Self-Medication and Society will entice sociologists and anthropologists with pursuits in future health, disorder, the physique and medicine.
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