title: Home as a hybrid centre of medication practice.
abstract: This article presents research that explores how medications are understood and used by people in everyday life. An intensive process of data collection from 55 households was used in this research, which included photo-elicitation and diary-elicitation interviews. It is argued that households are at the very centre of complex networks of therapeutic advice and practice and can usefully be seen as hybrid centres of medication practice, where a plethora of available medications is assimilated and different forms of knowledge and expertise are made sense of. Dominant therapeutic frameworks are tactically manipulated in households in order for medication practices to align with the understandings, resources and practicalities of households. Understanding the home as a centre of medication practice decentralises the role of health advisors (whether mainstream or alternative) in wellness practices.
authors.affiliation: Sociology and Social Policy Programme, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Kevin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Dew
authors.forename: Kerry
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Chamberlain
authors.forename: Darrin
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Hodgetts
authors.forename: Pauline
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Norris
authors.forename: Alan
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Radley
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gabe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D004358:Drug Therapy / Q000523:psychology; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009520:New Zealand; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D036301:Qualitative Research; D055815:Young Adult
chemical_list: D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations
keywords: Latour; de Certeau; households; medication practices