Il farmaco come oggetto d'uso tra quotidianità e corporeità

Abstract

This essay offers the reader a series of reflections on medicines as technical objects, objects of use, and artefacts coping with the corporeality of the patient as a user. Since the intent here is not to propose or validate a theory, medications are mainly devoted descriptive attention, along with an effort to render practical scenes and problematize and advocate awareness for the relevance of user-centredness. Intended as a theoretical contribution that highlights some critical issues concerning user-related factors for the in-home medication management, its contents mainly review some consolidated literature from the anthropology of medications.

Keywords

• person-centred design
• medications
• corporeality
• artefacts
• everyday objects
• design antropocentrico
• farmaci
• corporeità
• artefatti
• oggetti quotidiani