U.5 THE SOCIAL LIFE OF MEDICINES

Question 1

A medicine is a substance with the power to…

Answer 1

transform bodies.

Question 2

Medicines are closely linked to..

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the history of humanity

Question 3

Característics of medicines:

Answer 3

1. Transformative power
2. Beneficial or harmful
3. Effect over bodies and power over minds
4. Substances

Question 4

Medicines are products with economic significance and resources with…

Answer 4

political connotations

Question 5

Medicines are powerful symbols that give..

Answer 5

hope

Question 6

In medicines we have to difference between their chemical and pharmaceutical properties and their..

Answer 6

social and cultural interpretations.

Question 7

Medidines are symbolicaly and culturally..

Answer 7

structured responses

Question 8

Substances become significant within a..

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cultural context

Question 9

The spread of inductrial medicines is a example of…

Answer 9

globalization.

Question 10

The social effectiveness of medicines has to do with what they..

Answer 10

offer and take from people and their social relationships.

Question 11

How is name the study of the connoections between social and cultural processes. which includes scientific knowledge, symbols and beliefs, politics…?

Answer 11

pharmaceutical anthropology.

Question 12

In medicines what is dialectically united?

Answer 12

popularity and skepticism.

Question 13

Medicines have their popularity in..

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producers, sellers, doctors and comsumers.

Question 14

Producers, sellers, doctors and comsumers are levels..

Answer 14

imposible to separate.

Question 15

The popularity comes from the practical esperiences that medicines..

Answer 15

work.

Question 16

Medicine helps to undertand and explain a subjetive experiment and make it…

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objective

Question 17

How is name the prescription confirms the illness and justifies the patient’s behavior?

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Legitimation

Question 18

What is the heart of the treatment?

Answer 18

Medicinal technology

Question 19

The possitive effects depending on the presciption of medicines is call?

Answer 19

mediatory mechanism

Question 20

In the skepticism illness is a time full of..

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dependence and social control

Question 21

What notions are around illneses?

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morality and obligations

Question 22

Medicines are a factor of..

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individualization

Question 23

Medicines reduce de dependence from the..

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doctors.

Question 24

The skepticism of medicines is taking over the reins of..

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one’s own life

Question 25

How is call the patient's assertion versus the professional's control?

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Non-conformity

Question 26

What are hostile substances, means of oppression and weapons of rebellion ?

Answer 26

Medicines

Question 27

How is the long live of medicines?

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Preparation - Wholesalers - Prescribers - Retailers - Consumers

Question 28

How is name the new uses for a medicine, advertising and appropriation of users?

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Rewriting the pharmaceutical action

Question 29

Medcicines are reinterpreted as..

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local concepts

Question 30

Medicines may become different..

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objects

Question 31

The studies of the uses of medicines show the intersection of...

Answer 31

cultural beliefs and market tactics.

Question 32

Medicines are part of global processes of... depending on the...

Answer 32

attraction or rejection/dominant values

Question 33

In medicines there is high tension between...

Answer 33

high popularity, doubt and criticism.

Question 34

The skeptics of diferent societys are different? T or F?

Answer 34

T

Question 35

What caused as much by knowledge as by lack of it?

Answer 35

Doubt

Question 36

Skepticism is within a ...

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broader context.