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Medications, youth therapeutic cultures and performance consumptions: a sociolo...

"This article analyses performance consumptions among young people. The theme is explored along two main axes. The first concerns the social heterogeneity in this field, considered on two levels: the different purposes for those investments – cognitive/mental and physical performance; and the different social contexts – university and work – where performance practices and dispositions may be fostered. The seco...

Therapeutic consumption for improved performance. Is there a risk?

Medications, youth therapeutic cultures and performance consumptions: a sociolo...

This article analyses performance consumptions among young people. The theme is explored along two main axes. The first concerns the social heterogeneity in this field, considered on two levels: the different purposes for those investments - cognitive/mental and physical performance; and the different social contexts - university and work - where performance practices and dispositions may be fostered. The secon...

The natural and the pharmacological: patterns of therapeutic consumption in the...

In this article we identify patterns of therapeutic consumption, with the purpose of assessing an emerging pattern in modern societies, here designated as Therapeutic Pluralism, referring to the conjugated or alternated use of pharmacological and natural resources in the therapeutic trajectories of individuals. The empirical basis for this analysis stems from a concluded research on the topic and is focused on ...

O natural e o farmacológico: padrões de consumo terapêutico na população portug...

Neste artigo identificam-se os padrões de consumo terapêutico na população portuguesa, visando dar conta de um novo padrão emergente nas sociedades modernas, aqui designado de Pluralismo Terapêutico, noção com a qual se categoriza o uso conjugado ou alternado de recursos farmacológicos e naturais nas trajetórias terapêuticas dos indivíduos. O respetivo suporte empírico decorre de uma investigação, já concluída,...

Medicamentos e pluralismo terapêutico: reflexões metodológicas

No âmbito de um projecto de investigação em curso sobre “medicamentos e pluralismo terapêutico”, em que se procura explorar analiticamente o espectro de formas de pluralismo terapêutico actualmente emergentes, bem como as modalidades de activismo leigo e de reflexividade em que esse mesmo pluralismo assenta, pretende-se com esta comunicação dar conta de algumas reflexões metodológicas decorrentes das várias fas...