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Anthropology / Sociology Seminar Series : Transnational therapeutic encounters: Understanding the health-seeking behaviour of Indian-Australians and Anglo-Australians with depression |
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In this paper I draw on ethnographic data from Melbourne, Australia to explore how Indian and Anglo-Australians with depression procure medicines transnationally. From young Australians who buy (via e-pharmacies) American proteins and Chinese pills for ‘wellbeing’ to Indians who bring in antidepressants and biomedicines from India, I argue these transnational forms of medication procurement are explained by ideas of self-management and ‘getting on with life’. Such practices of self-management are related to reduced use of healthcare services, self-medication and self-labour. These practices occurred over time, informed by unsatisfactory interactions with the health system, participants confidence in their own agency, and capacity to craft therapeutic strategies. I argue that as patients absorbed and enacted neoliberal norms, a disconnect is created between the policy rhetoric of self-management, its operationalisation in the health system and patient understandings and practices of self-management. Such a disconnect, in turn, fosters conditions for risky health practices and poor health outcomes, including the safe use of medicines.
Speaker(s) |
Bianca Brijnath, Senior Research Fellow, School of Occupational Therapy and Social Work, Curtin University
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Location |
Social Sciences Building Room 2204
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Contact |
Loretta Baldassar
<[email protected] >
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Start |
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:30
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End |
Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:30
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Submitted by |
Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
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Last Updated |
Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:22
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