Sylvie Fainzang

Self-Medication and Society (eBook, ePUB)

Mirages of Autonomy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on fieldwork conducted in France, this book examines the material, cognitive, symbolic and social dimensions of the recourse to self-medication, considering the motivations and practices of the subjects and what these reveal about their relationship with the medical institution, while addressing the question of open access to medicines. A rigorous analysis both of the social treatment of the notion of autonomy ever present in the discourses promoting self-medication, and the strategies adopted by individuals to manage the risks of medicines and increase their efficacy, Self-Medication and Society will appeal to sociologists and anthropologists with interests in health, illness, the body and medicine.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 146
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315447148
• Artikelnr.: 47134899

Autorenporträt

Sylvie Fainzang is a French medical anthropologist and Director of Research in the INSERM (Cermes3). She is the scientific coordinator of the international network MAAH (Medical Anthropology At Home), the editor-in-chief of the international Journal Anthropologie & Santé, and the author of several books on illness and medicines.