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How decisions are made to use medicines - Consumer beliefs about pharmaceutical drugs: popularity and scepticism

  • In: P1 - Personal, cultural and social belief systems and the use of medicines on Monday, 3 September 2007, 9:00-12:00
  • At: Beijing (China) (2007)
  • Type: Presentation
  • By: VAN DER GEEST, Sjaak (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
  • Abstract:

    Pharmaceutical anthropology studies medicines in their social and cultural context: their production, their sale, distribution and prescription, their consumption and the beliefs about them, professional as well as ‘lay.’ It also explores the impact of that context on the use and efficacy of drugs. This presentation will contrast and discuss

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