International audienceBACKGROUND:Since the enactment of the 2002 legislative measures favoring the prescription of generic drugs, various quantitative studies have shown that approval by prescribers and users has risen in France. Nevertheless, scepticism remains as well as distrust towards these drugs focusing on their effectiveness compared with brand-name drugs, on potential dangers, and on the interruption they cause in prescription and consumption habits. Using a comprehensive approach, this article analyzes the social and cultural logic behind the negative image of generic drugs.METHODS:The materials issued from an ethnographic study on the prescription of drugs for high blood pressure. Sixty-eight interviews were undertaken between Ap...
International audienceObjective: uncontrolled high blood pressure leads clinicians to wonder about a...
Background: The regulation of generic medicines is a policy adopted in order to reduce pharmaceutica...
International audienceDrug safety is not a matter for healthcare professionals alone. Patients are a...
International audienceBACKGROUND:Since the enactment of the 2002 legislative measures favoring the p...
Thèse présentée sous la forme d'une "Thèse Article"Generic drugs first appeared 24 years ago in the ...
Background: As part of a policy of reducing health costs , the arrival of generics on the market tak...
Generic drugs, introduced on the French drug market in the late 1990s, have deeply affected relation...
Since nearly 20 years, the generics medicines are in French patients and health professionals’ life,...
Abstract Background Generic medicines are essential to controlling health expenditures. Their market...
peer-reviewedBackground: Considerable emphasis is presently being placed on usage of generic medicin...
International audienceIn the context of repeated health scandals concerning pharmaceuticals and the ...
Since the early 80's, there have been significant changes in the representations and meanings of the...
International audienceThe demand for pharmaceutical medicine is constantly increasing. In average, a...
International audienceINTRODUCTION: The case of purple drank motivated a study to investigate the wa...
International audienceObjective: uncontrolled high blood pressure leads clinicians to wonder about a...
Background: The regulation of generic medicines is a policy adopted in order to reduce pharmaceutica...
International audienceDrug safety is not a matter for healthcare professionals alone. Patients are a...
International audienceBACKGROUND:Since the enactment of the 2002 legislative measures favoring the p...
Thèse présentée sous la forme d'une "Thèse Article"Generic drugs first appeared 24 years ago in the ...
Background: As part of a policy of reducing health costs , the arrival of generics on the market tak...
Generic drugs, introduced on the French drug market in the late 1990s, have deeply affected relation...
Since nearly 20 years, the generics medicines are in French patients and health professionals’ life,...
Abstract Background Generic medicines are essential to controlling health expenditures. Their market...
peer-reviewedBackground: Considerable emphasis is presently being placed on usage of generic medicin...
International audienceIn the context of repeated health scandals concerning pharmaceuticals and the ...
Since the early 80's, there have been significant changes in the representations and meanings of the...
International audienceThe demand for pharmaceutical medicine is constantly increasing. In average, a...
International audienceINTRODUCTION: The case of purple drank motivated a study to investigate the wa...
International audienceObjective: uncontrolled high blood pressure leads clinicians to wonder about a...
Background: The regulation of generic medicines is a policy adopted in order to reduce pharmaceutica...
International audienceDrug safety is not a matter for healthcare professionals alone. Patients are a...