Living Pharmaceutical Lives

By: Kath Ryan and Peri J. Ballantyne

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Synopsis: Increasingly, pharmaceuticals are available as the solutions to a wide range of human health problems and health risks, minor and major. This book portrays how pharmaceutical use is, at once, a solution to, and a difficulty for, everyday life. Exploring lived experiences of people at different stages of the life course and from different countries around the world, this collection highlights the benefits as well as the challenges of using medicines on an everyday basis. It raises questions about the expectations associated with the use of medications, the uncertainty about a condition or about the duration of a medicine regimen for it, the need to negotiate the stigma associated with a condition or a type of medicine, the need to access and pay for medicines and the need to schedule medicine use appropriately, and the need to manage medicines’ effects and side effects. The chapters include original empirical research, literature review and theoretical analysis, and convey the sociological and phenomenological complexity of ‘living pharmaceutical lives’. This book is of interest to all those studying and researching social pharmacy and the sociology of health and illness.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 218 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781000384000
Related ISBNs:: 9780367359553, 9780429342868, 9780367772482
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 05/13/21
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Peri J. Ballantyne and Kath Ryan
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Medicine
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Peri Ballantyne
Edited by:: Kath Ryan