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Title  |
Therapeutic consumptions of performance among young people: trajectories and information networks |
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| Coordinator |
Lopes, Noémia Mendes
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| Researchers |
Lopes, Noémia Mendes
Rodrigues, Carla
Pegado, Elsa
Raposo, Hélder
Clamote, Telmo
Barros, Ivo
Calado, Alexandre
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| Researchers from other institutions |
Ana Isabel Henriques Dias Fernandes, Johanne Collin |
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| Abstract |
Therapeutic consumption among youths has been a topic of recent interest in various scientific fields, namely medical, social and political. This interest is focused on the consumption of products to enhance cognitive and body performance to which this generational group is most exposed. Our project falls within this domain and the object of analysis is the trajectories of performance enhancement consumption among youths in Portugal, more specifically on the consumption of the so-called smart drugs and lifestyle drugs. While the former are linked to
investments in cognitive performance (enhancing intellectual performance or overcoming natural or neurophysiologic limits), the latter are linked to body performance (investment in growth, muscle development etc). This spectrum of performance consumption encompasses both pharmaceutical and natural products. The key purpose of our project is to assess the specificity of the emerging youth therapeutic cultures, namely in terms of performance investments (pharmacological and natural), and how these display the blurring of the traditional boundaries between health and illness, between the normal and the pathological. The main analytical objective is to identify the cultural dispositions of youths vis-à-vis these consumptions as well as the role of information networks - notably the internet and everyday sociability contexts - in the production of these dispositions. |
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| Keywords |
Therapeutic consumptions, Pharmaceuticalization and therapeuticalization, Information networks, Youth therapeutic cultures |
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| Research lines |
Line III - Ways of life and public policies
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| Begining date |
01/03/2012 |
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| Expected end date |
28/02/2014 |
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| Partnerships |
Egas Moniz - Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, CRL (CESEM), Le Médicament comme Objet Social (Faculty of pharmacy, Université de Montréal) (MÉOS) |
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| Project type |
Funded research |
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| Funding entities |
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT)
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| Programme |
Concurso 2010 |
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