Living Pharmaceutical Lives

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of figure
List of tables
List of contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: Living pharmaceutical lives
	Introduction
	Everyday use of pharmaceuticals in social and interactional contexts
	References
Chapter 2: Drugs at work: Implicated in the making of the neoliberal worker 1
	Introduction
		The socio-political context of neoliberalism
		The neoliberal worker
		Medical neoliberalism
		Pharmaceuticals for common chronic illnesses and conditions in working-aged populations
		Pharmaceuticals to treat occupational-related stressors and workloads, and to mitigate occupation-specific risks
		Extending human limits and enhancing productivity
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 3: Medication-use narratives on the margins: Managing type 2 diabetes without medical insurance 1
	Introduction
	Routinisation and meaning-creation
	Methodology: Medication use narratives
	Findings and analysis
	Judgment: Linearity and stasis
		Learning the value of health (Just Beginning)
		Loss of stability (Cycling)
		The power of food (Cycling)
	Acceptance: Embodied learning and contemplation
		Finding pieces to a puzzle (Care of the Self)
	Gender
	Medication mistrust
	Meaning-creation, denial and psychology
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4: Medicines use for severe asthma: People’s perspectives
	Introduction
	Background
	Methods
	Results
		Theme 1: ‘Severe asthma means to me that you can’t function’ – illness identities
		Theme 2: The consuming effects of severe asthma – illness consequences
		Theme 3: ‘Asthma control means saving your life. It’s as simple as that’ – The need for asthma control
	Discussion
	References
Chapter 5: Pregnancy, urinary tract infections and antibiotics: Prenatal attachment and competing health priorities
	Introduction and background
	Methods
	Findings
		Illness perceptions
		Conceptualisation of antimicrobial resistance
		Pregnancy as deviation from the norm
	Discussion
		Prenatal attachment in competing health priorities
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: ‘What the medications do is that lovely four-lettered word – hope’: A phenomenological investigation of older people’s lived experiences of medication use following cancer diagnosis
	Introduction
	Methods
	Findings
		The noema (what happened)
		The noesis (how it happened)
	Discussion
	Conclusions
	References
Chapter 7: The paradox of vaccine hesitancy and refusal: Public health and the moral work of motherhood
	Introduction
	Background
	Method
		Sample selection and recruitment
		Interviews
		Data analysis
	Findings
		Infant body ‘at risk’
		Immunity/health building practices
		Moral work and the ‘Mom Network’
	Discussion
	References
Chapter 8: The pharmaceutical imaginary of heart disease: Pleasant futures and problematic present 1
	Introduction and background
		Healthy living in the 21st century
		Selves and imageries of statins
	Methodology
	Findings
		Optimising the future
		Being (bio)prepared
		Abduction and the sense of being off-time
	Concluding remarks
	Note
	References
Chapter 9: A shot in the dark?: Ontario girls, informed consent and HPV vaccination 1
	Introduction and background
	Methods
	Findings
		Volition
		Knowledge: Human papilloma virus
		Knowledge: Gardasil vaccination – risks, benefits, alternatives
	Discussion
		Consent
		Voluntariness
		Privacy and confidentiality
		Information provision
		Harm
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 10: Reflections on the use of antiretroviral treatment among HIV+ men who have sex with men (MSM) in Nigeria
	Introduction
	Context: ART program and same-sex criminalisation in Nigeria
	Methodology
	Initiating and taking ART
	Benefits of taking ART
	Challenges to taking ART optimally
		Nature of ART
		Patient-related challenges
			Inability to keep to time
			Forgetfulness
			MSM lifestyle
		Social/structural level challenges
			Lack of financial capital and sustenance
			Living arrangements
			Stigma and discrimination in everyday life
	Discussion and conclusion
	References
Chapter 11: Opioid analgesics, stigma, shame and identity
	Introduction
	Patients and medicines
	The role of opioid analgesics in pain
	Stigma, shame and identity
	Recognising opioid analgesic stigma, shame and identity
	What role for opioid analgesics?
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 12: The drama of medicines: Narratives of living with postural tachycardia syndrome
	Introduction
	Background
		Telling stories about medicines
		Medication narratives and late modern illness experience
		Stories about medicines as dramas
		Postural tachycardia syndrome
	Methods
		Stories of living with postural tachycardia syndrome
		Analysing medication narratives
	Findings
		Dramas of embodiment: Medicines in the body
		Dramas of signification
		Dramas of experimentation: Solving the riddle of illness
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 13: (Developing) pharmaceutical solutions to COVID-19: Navigating global tensions around the distribution of therapeutics and vaccines
	Introduction
	Background
	Social inequalities in COVID-19 morbidity and mortality
	Anticipated pharmaceutical solutions
		Therapeutics for COVID-19
		Vaccines
	Discussion
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 14: Conclusion: What of pharmaceutical lives?
	Introduction
		Medicines’ varied effects
		Pharmaceutical healthwork
		Medicine access and medicine use in social and political contexts
	Conclusion
	References
Index