Sylvie Fainzang, "Self-Medication and Society: Mirages of Autonomy "
English | ISBN: 1138213942 | 2016 | 146 pages | EPUB | 494 KB
English | ISBN: 1138213942 | 2016 | 146 pages | EPUB | 494 KB
The question of recourse to self-medication arises at the intersection of two partly antagonistic discourses: that of the public authorities, who advocate the practice primarily for economic reasons, and that of health professionals, who condemn it for fear that it may pose a danger to health and dispossess the profession of expertise. This books examines the reality of self-medication in context and investigates the social treatment of the notion of autonomy ever present in the discourses promoting this practice.
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