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Sociological Approach on the ART of Using Drugs By Patients Suffering of Oncological and Psychiatric Diseases
- Which are the factors that determine the choice of the patient when he takes a medicine?
- Which are the motivations that characterize the behavior of the patients when they take a medicine?
- How the norms established by the public health instances influence the perception of the patients when they take a medicine?
- Basing my assumptions on how the patients take the medicine, I will investigate how the way of taking medicine is influenced by their belonging to a specific social class and which are the cultural factors that determine the way they take their medicine?
Pretti-Wettel and Moatti[1] uphold that the patient is not only the subject of his illness but at the same time assumes an active role with his illness by investigating it and by taking part in his healing process. In that context I will investigate the factors which determine the way the patients take the their drugs taking into consideration the influence of the media on them, their belonging to a social class, their dwelling environment, their gender, their profession, their educational background, the relation between them and their physician. With this study I hope to be able to assert that there is a similarity in the tactics of taking medicine by patients belonging to different socio-economic an cultural classes and that the practices of public health in Turkey play a unifying role between the various social classes in question.
[1] Patrick Peretti-Watel-Jean Paul Moatti, Le Principe de prévention : Le culte de la sante et ses dérives, Paris: Seuil, 2009.