Generation RX: Anthropological Research on Pharmaceutical Enhancement, Lifestyle Regulation, Self-Medication and Recreational Drug Use

A Companion to Medical Anthropology

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 339-355

  Quintero, Gilbert ^a   Nichter, Mark ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropological examination of PPD misuse and abuse needs, patterns of self use; Direct attention to social life of prescription psychoactive drugs (PPDs); Edgework and harm reduction concepts, assisting anthropologists in documenting patterns of PPD use; Ethnographic research, called for during troubled times of economic uncertainty; Ethnographies of self administered legal drugs in the United States; Generation RX, anthropological research on pharmaceutical enhancement lifestyle regulation self medication and recreational drug use; Recreational drug use of prescription drugs non medical use of prescription drugs; Role of substances in everyday life anthropologists, and patterns of substance use abuse; Supply side commodity chain issues demand for specific classes of drugs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84866539790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444395303.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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