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Call for papers: RGS Annual Conference, Exeter, 1 – 4th Sept. 2015
Pharmaceutical worlds: humans, habits, and habitats
Recent decades have witnessed a rapid escalation in the production and use of pharmaceutical medicines (Busfield 2010). According to Williams et al. (2011) such developments form part of a dynamic and complex socio-technical process of pharmaceuticalisation in which everyday lives and lifestyles are being colonised by pharmaceutical expectations and solutions. This is evidenced not only in the number of medicines administered for increasingly diagnosed chronic and mental health conditions, but, it is argued, through the ‘corporate construction of disease’ in which previously minor ailments or personal problems become medicalised (Moynihan 2002).
Despite such changes in the availability of treatments, estimates suggest that over half of all pharmaceutical medicines are prescribed, dispensed or sold inappropriately, and that half of all patients fail to take them as directed (Holloway 2011; WHO 2010). Whilst this can result in significant adverse health impacts and have serious repercussions for antimicrobial resistance (WHO 2014; Davies 2013), a growing body of evidence also points to the negative impacts of increasing pharmaceutical waste on the physical environment (Stahl-Timmins et al. 2012). In response to these issues, this session seeks to attend to important questions concerning the governance of the pharmaceutical industry in medical development; factors affecting the administration and use of different medicines; and the relative socio-environmental responsibilities accorded across corporate, policy and public worlds. Whilst lines of enquiry are open, possible areas for exploration include:
· Socio-cultural, economic and environmental factors influencing decisions over treatment-seeking, particularly for chronic and ‘lifestyle’ conditions.
· Emplacement, experience and everyday use of pharmaceutical medicines.
· The potential for ‘alternative’ non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly for chronic and ‘lifestyle’ conditions.
· Communicating the medicine-environment relationship.
· Issues affecting governance and responsibility of medicines at global, national and local scales.
Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words by 1st February 2015 to:
Felicity Thomas ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
Cassandra Phoenix ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>)
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