Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy

Using ethnographic examples of medicine use, prescription, distribution and production, the authors argue that social and cultural effects of pharmaceuticals should be taken into account. Non-medical effects deeply influence the medical outcome of medicine use. Complications around the advent of ant...

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Autores principales: van der Geest, Sjaak, Hardon, Anita
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17090322
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-48
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description Using ethnographic examples of medicine use, prescription, distribution and production, the authors argue that social and cultural effects of pharmaceuticals should be taken into account. Non-medical effects deeply influence the medical outcome of medicine use. Complications around the advent of anti-AIDS medicines in poor countries are taken as a point in case. The authors are medical anthropologists specialised in the social and cultural analysis of pharmaceuticals.
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spelling pubmed-16366272006-11-16 Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy van der Geest, Sjaak Hardon, Anita J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research Using ethnographic examples of medicine use, prescription, distribution and production, the authors argue that social and cultural effects of pharmaceuticals should be taken into account. Non-medical effects deeply influence the medical outcome of medicine use. Complications around the advent of anti-AIDS medicines in poor countries are taken as a point in case. The authors are medical anthropologists specialised in the social and cultural analysis of pharmaceuticals. BioMed Central 2006-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC1636627/ /pubmed/17090322 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-48 Text en Copyright © 2006 van der Geest and Hardon; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy
title Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy
title_full Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy
title_fullStr Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy
title_full_unstemmed Social and cultural efficacies of medicines: Complications for antiretroviral therapy
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title_sort social and cultural efficacies of medicines: complications for antiretroviral therapy
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1636627/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-48
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