Medicine Takers, Prescribers and Hoarders

Karen Dunnell, Ann Cartwright

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Routledge
01 April 2024

Illness & addiction: social aspects; Personal & public health; Medical sociology

Series: Routledge Revivals

In the early 1970s, the consumption of both prescribed and non-prescribed medicines in Britain was increasing. Originally published in 1972, this book takes a look at the medicine takers and the types of medicine they take. It examines the relationship between self-medication and prescription, and describes the frequency and nature of repeat prescribing. The medicines kept in a random sample of households were counted and analysed, and data about the length of time people hoarded medicines is used as a basis for estimating the proportion of prescribed medicines that are wasted.

By putting the views and habits of people as patients alongside information from their general practitioners the study illuminates the relationship between patients and doctors. In addition, variations between people in different social classes direct light on the distribution of care and the equity of services at the time

By: Karen Dunnell, Ann Cartwright
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781032718446
ISBN 10: 1032718447
Series: Routledge Revivals
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 April 2024
Audience: College/higher education , College/higher education , Adult education , Primary , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments. 1. Introduction 2. Ill Health and Medication 3. The Nature of Medication 4. Frequency and Length of Medication 5. Who Takes the Medicines? 6. General Practitioners’ Views and Practices 7. Medicines in the Home 8. Patterns in the Use of Commonly Taken Medicines 9. Discussion. Appendices. References. Index

Karen Dunnell and Ann Cartwright.

Reviews for Medicine Takers, Prescribers and Hoarders

Reviews for the original edition: ‘This study clearly touches on a variety of questions which are of great importance to the running of the health services, but it also raises issues of profound and basic importance to the understanding of how society today deals rationally and (very properly) magically, with what it defines as illness.’ –Griffith Edwards, New Society