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Medication use for the management of professional performance : between invisibility and social normalisation

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datacite.subject.fosCiências Sociais::Sociologia
datacite.subject.sdg03:Saúde de Qualidade
dc.contributor.authorLopes, Noémia
dc.contributor.authorTavares, David
dc.contributor.authorPegado, Elsa
dc.contributor.authorRaposo, Hélder
dc.contributor.authorRodrigues, Carla
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-17T16:49:09Z
dc.date.available2025-12-17T16:49:09Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThis article aims to explore pharmaceuticalisation processes in professional work contexts. The approach focuses on identifying patterns of medicine and dietary supplement use for managing work performance, and on discussing the relationship between these consumption practices and work-related pressure factors. This analysis adapts the notions of ‘normalisation’ to understand the extent of cultural acceptability of these practices, and the notion of ‘differentiated normalisation’ to capture the tension between the trend towards normalisation of such consumption and its partial social (in)visibility within work settings. Empirical support for this analysis is based on a sociological study conducted in Portugal on professions under high performance pressures. The study involved three professional groups – nurses, journalists and police officers. A mixed methods approach was used, including focus groups, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews. Overall, the results show a trend towards the use of medicines and supplements for performance management, which reveals itself as a cultural response to work-related social pressures. Such consumption coexists with irregular patterns of either occasional or long-term use, as well as heterogeneous processes of ‘normalisation’ and ‘hidden’ consumption. Conclusions point to a social interconnection between the intensification of work pressures and the pharmaceuticalisation of work performance.eng
dc.identifier.citationLopes, N., Tavares, D., Pegado, E., Raposo, H., & Rodrigues, C. (2024). Medication use for the management of professional performance: between invisibility and social normalisation. Health Sociology Review, 33(3), 358–375. https://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2362174
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14461242.2024.2362174
dc.identifier.issn1839-3551
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/60483
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.relation.hasversionhttps://doi.org/10.1080/14461242.2024.2362174
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectMedication
dc.subjectpharmaceuticalisation
dc.subjectperformance consumptions
dc.subjectwork contexts
dc.subjectprofessional pressure
dc.subjectdifferentiated normalisation
dc.titleMedication use for the management of professional performance : between invisibility and social normalisationeng
dc.typecontribution to journal
dspace.entity.typePublication
oaire.citation.endPage375
oaire.citation.issue3
oaire.citation.startPage358
oaire.citation.titleHealth Sociology Review
oaire.citation.volume33
oaire.versionhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85

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