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This article has been published in: Ocula 27, Flux 2023

authors: Silvia Pizzocaro (Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano (IT)) and Antonella Penati (Dipartimento di Design, Politecnico di Milano (IT))

Il farmaco come oggetto d’uso tra quotidianità e corporeità

language: italian

abstract: This essay offers the reader a series of reflections on medicines as technical objects, objects of use, and artefacts coping with the corporeality of the patient as a user.
Since the intent here is not to propose or validate a theory, medications are mainly devoted descriptive attention, along with an effort to render practical scenes and problematize and advocate awareness for the relevance of user-centredness.
Intended as a theoretical contribution that highlights some critical issues concerning user-related factors for the in-home medication management, its contents mainly review some consolidated literature from the anthropology of medications.

citation information: Silvia Pizzocaro and Antonella Penati, Il farmaco come oggetto d’uso tra quotidianità e corporeità , "Ocula", vol.24, n.27, pp.37-64, November 2023. DOI: 10.57576/ocula2023-4

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