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PMID: 20721755 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
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This paper focuses on psychiatric medication experiences among a sample of North American university students to explore a new cultural and social landscape of medication 'compliance.' In this landscape, patients assume significant personal decision-making power in terms of dosages, when to discontinue use and even what medications to take. Patients carefully monitor and regulate their moods, and actively gather and circulate newly legitimated blends of expert and experiential knowledge about psychiatric medications among peers, family members and their physicians. The medications too, take a vital role in shaping this landscape, and help to create the spaces for meaning-making and interpretation described and explored in this article. In concluding the article, the authors claim that two popular academic discourses in medical anthropology, one of patient empowerment and shared decision-making and the other of technologies of self and governmentality, may fail to account for other orders of reality that this paper describes - orders shaped and influenced by unconscious, unexpressed and symbolic motivations. |
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Authors:
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Kelly A McKinney; Brian G Greenfield |
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Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Anthropology & medicine Volume: 17 ISSN: 1469-2910 ISO Abbreviation: Anthropol Med Publication Date: 2010 Aug |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2010-08-19 Completed Date: 2010-12-10 Revised Date: - |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 9709920 Medline TA: Anthropol Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 173-85 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Department of Humanities, Philosophy and Religion, John Abbott College, Ste. Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, H9X 3L9 Canada. kelly.mckinney@johnabbott.qc.ca |
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Anthropology, Cultural* Decision Making Female Fluoxetine / administration & dosage*, adverse effects, therapeutic use Humans Male Medication Adherence / psychology* Mental Disorders / drug therapy, psychology North America Patient Participation / psychology Physician-Patient Relations Psychotropic Drugs / administration & dosage, adverse effects, therapeutic use Self Administration / psychology Self Medication / psychology Social Environment Students / psychology* Young Adult |
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0/Psychotropic Drugs; 54910-89-3/Fluoxetine |
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