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Anthropology / Sociology Seminar Series : Transnational therapeutic encounters: Understanding the health-seeking behaviour of Indian-Australians and Anglo-Australians with depression Other events...
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
Location Social Sciences Building Room 2204
Contact Loretta Baldassar <[email protected] >
Start Fri, 09 Sep 2016 14:30
End Fri, 09 Sep 2016 15:30
Submitted by Hayley Musson <[email protected]>
Last Updated Tue, 06 Sep 2016 16:22
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