This article discusses the relationship between the demands on nurses’ professional performance and adherence to the use of medicines and supplements for their management. This approach allows us to analyze the transformations of nursing work and how nurses use various natural and pharmaceutical resources to cope with the pressures they face in their professional activities. To understand the interconnection be...
This article discusses results from a sociological study on (i) the sources and use of information on medicines and/or supplements and (ii) the self-assessment of how informed participants were about the last medicine or supplement they purchased. It seeks to demonstrate the plurality of information sources (expert and lay) that individuals call upon—with which they build up their medication literacy—and their ...
O presente artigo pretende dar um contributo para a atualização do conhecimento sobre a presença da sociologia no ensino superior português — não enquanto área científica principal, mas sim na sua mobilização por outros cursos e áreas de formação. Após o levantamento de informação nos planos curriculares, procurou-se perceber de que forma a disciplina se enquadra no âmbito geral do curso e qual a sua utilidade,...