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Universal cures for idiosyncratic illnesses: a genealogy of therapeutic reasoning in the mental health field
(SAGE Publications, 2014-08)
Over the past decades, there has been a significant increase in prescriptions of psychotropic drugs for mental disorders. So far, most of the explanations of the phenomenon have focused on the process of medicalization, ...
Insiders, smart drugs et pharmaceuticalisation : éléments pour une typologie de la nouvelle déviance conformiste
(Département de sociologie de l’Université du Québec à Montréal & Athéna éditions, 2016)
La multiplication des usagers et usagères des smart drugs sur les campus universitaires, des go-pills dans l’armée ou encore des coast-to-coast chez les camionneurs de longue distance invite à revisiter la légitimité ...
Resistance and mutations of non-specificity in the field of anxietydepressive disorders in Canadian medical journals, 1950-1990
(Elsevier, 2014-12-03)
Pharmaceuticalisation is a complex phenomenon, co-constitutive of what scholars identify as a pharmaceutical
regime, comprised of networks of actors, institutions and artefacts as well as cognitive
structures that underlie ...