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      Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice

      Dew, Kevin; Chamberlain, Kerry; Hodgetts, Darrin; Norris, Pauline; Radley, Alan; Gabe, Jonathan
      DOI
       10.1111/1467-9566.12041
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       onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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      Dew, K., Chamberlain, K., Hodgetts, D., Norris, P., Radley, A., & Gabe, J. (2013). Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice. Sociology of Health & Illness, published online 5 August 2013.
      Permanent Research Commons link: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/7822
      Abstract
      This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was used in this research, which included photo-elicitation and diary-elicitation interviews. It is argued that households are at the very centre of complex networks of therapeutic advice and practice and can usefully be seen as hybrid centres of medication practice, where a plethora of available medications is assimilated and different forms of knowledge and expertise are made sense of. Dominant therapeutic frameworks are tactically manipulated in households in order for medication practices to align with the understandings, resources and practicalities of households. Understanding the home as a centre of medication practice decentralises the role of health advisors (whether mainstream or alternative) in wellness practices.
      Date
      2013
      Type
      Journal Article
      Publisher
      Wiley
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