Sociology and Social Policy Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Sociol Health Illn. 2014 Jan;36(1):28-43. doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12041. Epub 2013 Aug 5.
This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was used in this research, which included photo-elicitation and diary-elicitation interviews. It is argued that households are at the very centre of complex networks of therapeutic advice and practice and can usefully be seen as hybrid centres of medication practice, where a plethora of available medications is assimilated and different forms of knowledge and expertise are made sense of. Dominant therapeutic frameworks are tactically manipulated in households in order for medication practices to align with the understandings, resources and practicalities of households. Understanding the home as a centre of medication practice decentralises the role of health advisors (whether mainstream or alternative) in wellness practices.
本文介绍了一项研究，探讨了人们在日常生活中如何理解和使用药物。这项研究采用了从 55 个家庭中收集数据的密集过程，包括照片诱发和日记诱发访谈。研究认为，家庭处于治疗建议和实践的复杂网络的中心，因此可以将家庭视为药物实践的混合中心，在家庭中可以吸收大量可用的药物，并理解不同形式的知识和专业技能。为了使药物实践与家庭的理解、资源和实际情况保持一致，家庭会策略性地操纵主导的治疗框架。将家庭理解为药物实践的中心，使健康顾问（无论是主流还是替代）在健康实践中的作用去中心化。
