What is it about?

In this study, we examine a key issue for the sustainability of our welfare state: the patterns of consumption of generic drugs, the Internet, and healthcare social work.

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Why is it important?

Taking the online context (netnography) as an object of ethnographic analysis, we analyze climates of opinion in relation to the consumption of generic drugs. We identify and analyze the linguistic framing and social discrediting of generic drugs via misinformation and the creation of risk perception to curb the social acceptability and consumption of these medicines in Spain.

Perspectives

Based on the results obtained, we provide strategies that can be used by healthcare social workers.

DR. ANTONIO LOPEZ PELAEZ
Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia

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This page is a summary of: Social work and netnography: The case of Spain and generic drugs, Qualitative Social Work, November 2013, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1473325013507736.
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