Medication
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https://doi.org/10.47854/IQRO3749Keywords:
Pharmaceuticals, Life cycle, Biomedicalization, Biocapitalism, Incorporated molecules, Public healthAbstract
This entry offers an overview of a part of the literature on medication as a social object. Medication, often perceived in anthropology as an “exotic” object, has become a pharmaceutical object whose biography focuses on different fields of activity, all of which possess a respective set of values and contextual vectors. The pharmaceutical object is now seen as globalized, that is a central object in the construction of a good life, and an object of power and consumption.
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