What is it about?
Explores the 'pharmaceuticalisation' of everyday life and domestic environments, and the rise of 'lifestyle pharmaceuticals'.
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Why is it important?
The pharmaceuticalisation of daily life links the economics and politics of pharmaceutical production to the private lives of citizens.
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In this paper we have shown how the social relations surrounding contemporary pharmaceutical production and consumption link the world of business to the private worlds of citizens, forging new diseases and treatments from the very fabric of daily life.
Professor Nick J Fox
University of Huddersfield
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This page is a summary of: Pharma in the bedroom . . . and the kitchen. . . . The pharmaceuticalisation of daily life, Sociology of Health & Illness, September 2008, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2008.01114.x.
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