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- MEDICATIONS AS A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PHENOMENON
During the first four years of Fond de recherche en santé du Québec (FRSQ) financing, MÉOS’s research programme was based on an analysis framework that took into consideration the many dimensions of medications. The idea was to consider the life cycle of medications within society, from production to distribution and ending with consumption. From the dual viewpoint of micro-regulations (the place of medications in health and disease management strategies, the relationships between patients and professionals, the ideological positions of stakeholders, the multiple reasons and models for the use of medications, etc.) and macro-social regulations (the societal and comparative perspective, the diversity of cultural referents and of socio-historical contexts), MÉOS’s objective was to vary the focus in order to identify the give and take between these two perspectives.
The 2007-2011 programme is based on the deeper empirical and theoretical (multidisciplinary) understanding of medications afforded by the team’s work and reflections to date, as well as the broader questioning process that follows. The programme is structured along three axes that prompt a questioning of the complex interfacing between individual and social conduct, science and culture, local and global, economic rationality and collective health choices, therapeutics and performance, and health and disease. Within the scope of these axes, we wish to REVISIT three concepts—“medicalization,” “socialization,” and “globalization”—with the GOAL of better understanding what the omnipresent and multifaceted “medications phenomenon” means today.
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