… medications as socially embedded phenomena, using the class of psychoactive medications
as a … motivating medication usages and is therefore inadequate to understand the place of …

This review presents the definition and goals of “social pharmacology”, a new branch of
clinical pharmacology, investigating relationships between drugs and society through the …

… The medication experience is a vital component of pharmaceutical care practice and …
medication has been studied across disciplines for decades, a concept analysis of the medication …

… the daily use of medications is a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that directs the … to
broaden the understanding of this phenomenon and its dissemination through teaching future …

… The issue ofpromoting medications for personal or social problems involves a difficult balance
… Illness is really a social phenomenon composed of meanings employed by those involved …

… Thus, whilst all forms of medication play a part in social regulation, by expediting recovery
to normal functioning in voluntary patients, only psychotropic medication has a reputation for …

… , due in part to the ineffable or tacit nature of these phenomena. Two recent developments
… study of illness and health, which describes illness as a social phenomenon composed of …

… with the results showing that elderly patients not only use their medications as pharmacological
substances but also in a sense involving social meaning. This meaning regards (1) the …

… out our assumptions about medicines as social and cultural phenomena. We briefly review
the … by medications and enhance social efficacy-making both mothers and children feel better. …

… new medical technologies and psychoactive medications, from Ritalin to Prozac… social and
rolestructured phenomenon. When people become sick, he argued, there is available a social …