title: Emplacement and everyday use of medications in domestic dwellings.
abstract: To extend knowledge of relationships between people and domestic settings in the context of medication use, we conducted fieldwork in twenty households in New Zealand. These households contained a range of 'medicative' forms, including prescription drugs, traditional remedies, dietary supplements and enhanced foods. The location and use of these substances within domestic dwellings speaks to processes of emplacement and identity in the creation of spaces for care. Our analysis contributes to current understandings of the ways in which objects from 'outside' the home come to be woven into relationships, identities and meanings 'inside' the home. We demonstrate that, as well as being pharmacological objects, medications are complex, socially embedded objects with histories and memories that are ingrained within contemporary relationships of care and home-making practices.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, University of Waikato, Gate 1 Knighton Road, Hamilton 3240, New Zealand. dhdgetts@waikato.ac.nz
authors.forename: Darrin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hodgetts
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chamberlain
authors.forename: Jon
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gabe
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dew
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radley
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Madden
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.forename: Linda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Waimarie Nikora
mesh_terms: D004356:Drug Storage / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005190:Family; D006794:Household Articles / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006798:Housing / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations