Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication Experience
Taking the ‘medication experience’ in the broad sense of what individuals hear and say about their medication, as well as how they experience it, this paper explores diverse research on medication information available to patients and their modes and capacities for interaction, including personal ci...
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| description | Taking the ‘medication experience’ in the broad sense of what individuals hear and say about their medication, as well as how they experience it, this paper explores diverse research on medication information available to patients and their modes and capacities for interaction, including personal circles, doctors and pharmacists, labeling and promotion, websites, and the patient’s own inner conversations and self-expression. The goal is to illustrate, for nonspecialists in communication, how the actors, messages, mediums, genres, and contextual factors within a standard ethnographic and social semiotic model of discourse and communication are operating, not always effectively or beneficially, to mediate or construct a patient’s medication experience. We also suggest how disparate insights can be integrated through such a model and might generate new research questions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-f2abc0dc158d4aa6b6d160019638dfe82023-12-11T17:18:53ZengMDPI AGPharmacy2226-47872021-02-01914210.3390/pharmacy9010042Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication ExperienceLewis H. Glinert0Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Linguistics, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USATaking the ‘medication experience’ in the broad sense of what individuals hear and say about their medication, as well as how they experience it, this paper explores diverse research on medication information available to patients and their modes and capacities for interaction, including personal circles, doctors and pharmacists, labeling and promotion, websites, and the patient’s own inner conversations and self-expression. The goal is to illustrate, for nonspecialists in communication, how the actors, messages, mediums, genres, and contextual factors within a standard ethnographic and social semiotic model of discourse and communication are operating, not always effectively or beneficially, to mediate or construct a patient’s medication experience. We also suggest how disparate insights can be integrated through such a model and might generate new research questions.https://www.mdpi.com/2226-4787/9/1/42languagediscoursecommunicationmedicationhealth literacylabelling |
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| title | Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication Experience |
| title_full | Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication Experience |
| title_fullStr | Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication Experience |
| title_full_unstemmed | Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication Experience |
| title_short | Communicative and Discursive Perspectives on the Medication Experience |
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| topic | language discourse communication medication health literacy labelling |
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