N Lopes
Biographic Data
| ID | 9521 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Lopes |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Lopes |
| SIGNATURE | LOPES N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Escola Superior de Saúde Egas Moniz |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5789-7766 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nurses Under Pressure
This article discusses the relationship between the demands on nurses’ professional performance and adherence to the use of medicines and supplements for their management. This approach allows us to analyze the transformations of nursing work and how nurses use various natural and pharmaceutical resources to cope with the pressures they face in their professional activities. To understand the interconnection between the transformations in nursing…
Medication literacy and its social contextuality
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about medication literacy, by focussing on the social contextuality of the information mobilised in the use of medicines. We aim to explore the social construction processes of medication literacy, as an essential dimension for a more layperson-centred approach in the promotion of literacy in this field. This approach is justified by the growing social and cultural dissemination of medication use,…
Medication use for the management of professional performance
This 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…
I heard about some pills»
Departing from a broader sociological study, this article presents exploratory research seeking to analyse practices of online information exchange on the consumption of medicines and food supplements among students, mainly to improve cognitive performance. It aims to show that the Internet is a relevant space which should be considered when analysing where lay people, specifically students, get information about medicines. The empirical field wa…
Medicines and Medication Literacy
This article discusses results from a sociological study on (i) the sources and use of information on medicines and/or supplements and (ii) the self-assessment of how informed participants were about the last medicine or supplement they purchased. It seeks to demonstrate the plurality of information sources (expert and lay) that individuals call upon—with which they build up their medication literacy—and their perception of the information they h…
Transformações do trabalho em contextos de pressão para o desempenho profissional
O presente artigo consubstancia-se numa reflexão teórica sobre as transformações na natureza e nos tempos de trabalho em contextos de elevada pressão para o desempenho, tendo por base três grupos profissionais: jornalistas, enfermeiros e polícias. Salientam-se as tendências para o aumento das competências tecnológicas e digitais, do controlo sobre o trabalho sob a forma de tecnovigilância, do escrutínio sobre a atividade dos profissionais, e do c…
Beyond health
With an increasing range of products in global and local markets, more options are available for individuals to enhance their image and their (cognitive, social and physical) performance. These 'performance consumptions' relate to ideals of well-being and improvement, and are based on constructed desires, expectations and needs that go beyond the (often blurred) dichotomy of health and illness. Drawing from mixed-methods research in Maputo, Mozam…
Pharmaceuticalisation and the social management of sleep in old age
This paper discusses sleep as a social phenomenon, analysing it in the older population within the frame of a growing pharmaceuticalisation of conditions associated with old age. Two analytical dimensions are privileged: one pertains to patterns of sleep in old age, showing these patterns to be socially differentiated; while another has to do with the subjective experience of sleep, particularly in terms of the social meanings attributed to sleep…
Ageing and memory medication
This article focuses on the social rationales underlying the consumption or rejection of medication for memory by the elderly. Our analysis is set within the wider frame of the current use of psychopharmaceuticals for the enhancement of everyday performance, discussing its relationship to new cultures of ageing. Our results, from a recently concluded study, point to different patterns of investment in memory in old age. On the one hand, we found …
Histórias de (uma) vida
Partindo da experincia de investigao num estudo sociolgico sobre a psicofarmacologizao da velhice, cuja metodologia incluiu a realizao de histrias de vida, o presente artigo visa discutir alguns dilemas ticos e correspondentes desafios metodolgicos inerentes a esta tcnica e, em particular, as especificidades da sua aplicao junto da populao idosa. O estudo, desenvolvido no concelho de Almada, contemplou a realizao de 30 entrevistas de histrias de …
Medicamentos, consumos de performance e culturas terapêuticas em mudança
O uso de fármacos e produtos naturais para a gestão do desempenho pessoal, aqui designado consumos de performance, constitui o foco deste artigo e dá suporte a uma reflexão analítica sobre a mudança nas culturas terapêuticas. Tendo por referência a atual problemática dafarmacologização, bem como o lugar do natural na expansão do uso do medicamento, demonstra-se que a farmacologização do quotidiano está a emergir noutros campos, que não exclusivam…
Medications, youth therapeutic cultures and performance consumptions
This article analyses performance consumptions among young people. The theme is explored along two main axes. The first concerns the social heterogeneity in this field, considered on two levels: the different purposes for those investments - cognitive/mental and physical performance; and the different social contexts - university and work - where performance practices and dispositions may be fostered. The second axis explores the roles of pharmac…
Regulation, public interest and research in the professional field
Taking into account the social conflicts and the many forces present in the domain of health occupations and professions, the authors propose a critical reflection on the role played by the state in the promotion of public interest and the delegation of this role to professional bodies, using a study of an occupational group in the health sector that was carried out in Portugal. The discussion is developed within the domain of the social conditio…
Automedicação, saberes e racionalidades leigas em mudança1
Analisam-se neste texto os saberes e racionalidades leigas em que se inscrevem as práticas de automedicação. O objectivo é demonstrar, após uma breve recensão crítica dos principais marcos teóricos da análise dos saberes leigos frente aos saberes periciais, as actuais formas de apropriação e reconversão leiga do saber pericial e as modalidades de pericialização que tais saberes comuns revelam. A discussão sobre as novas formas de dependência leig…
Questões deontológicas e de metodologia de investigação em sociologia
O artigo tem como objetivo refletir sobre um conjunto de questões deontológicas e teórico-metodológicas que se colocam aos sociólogos no caso particular das investigações que realizam sobre as profissões e o associativismo profissional. O ponto de partida desta reflexão foi um estudo realizado no ano de 2008 na área das profissões da saúde e enquadra-se numa reflexão mais ampla sobre o exercício profissional dos sociólogos
Beyond health
With an increasing range of products in global and local markets, more options are available for individuals to enhance their image and their (cognitive, social and physical) performance. These 'performance consumptions' relate to ideals of well-being and improvement, and are based on constructed desires, expectations and needs that go beyond the (often blurred) dichotomy of health and illness. Drawing from mixed-methods research in Maputo, Mozam…
Medications, youth therapeutic cultures and performance consumptions
This article analyses performance consumptions among young people. The theme is explored along two main axes. The first concerns the social heterogeneity in this field, considered on two levels: the different purposes for those investments - cognitive/mental and physical performance; and the different social contexts - university and work - where performance practices and dispositions may be fostered. The second axis explores the roles of pharmac…
Pharmaceuticalisation and the social management of sleep in old age
This paper discusses sleep as a social phenomenon, analysing it in the older population within the frame of a growing pharmaceuticalisation of conditions associated with old age. Two analytical dimensions are privileged: one pertains to patterns of sleep in old age, showing these patterns to be socially differentiated; while another has to do with the subjective experience of sleep, particularly in terms of the social meanings attributed to sleep…
Ageing and memory medication
This article focuses on the social rationales underlying the consumption or rejection of medication for memory by the elderly. Our analysis is set within the wider frame of the current use of psychopharmaceuticals for the enhancement of everyday performance, discussing its relationship to new cultures of ageing. Our results, from a recently concluded study, point to different patterns of investment in memory in old age. On the one hand, we found …
Automedicação, saberes e racionalidades leigas em mudança1
Analisam-se neste texto os saberes e racionalidades leigas em que se inscrevem as práticas de automedicação. O objectivo é demonstrar, após uma breve recensão crítica dos principais marcos teóricos da análise dos saberes leigos frente aos saberes periciais, as actuais formas de apropriação e reconversão leiga do saber pericial e as modalidades de pericialização que tais saberes comuns revelam. A discussão sobre as novas formas de dependência leig…
Transformações do trabalho em contextos de pressão para o desempenho profissional
O presente artigo consubstancia-se numa reflexão teórica sobre as transformações na natureza e nos tempos de trabalho em contextos de elevada pressão para o desempenho, tendo por base três grupos profissionais: jornalistas, enfermeiros e polícias. Salientam-se as tendências para o aumento das competências tecnológicas e digitais, do controlo sobre o trabalho sob a forma de tecnovigilância, do escrutínio sobre a atividade dos profissionais, e do c…
Histórias de (uma) vida
Partindo da experincia de investigao num estudo sociolgico sobre a psicofarmacologizao da velhice, cuja metodologia incluiu a realizao de histrias de vida, o presente artigo visa discutir alguns dilemas ticos e correspondentes desafios metodolgicos inerentes a esta tcnica e, em particular, as especificidades da sua aplicao junto da populao idosa. O estudo, desenvolvido no concelho de Almada, contemplou a realizao de 30 entrevistas de histrias de …
Regulation, public interest and research in the professional field
Taking into account the social conflicts and the many forces present in the domain of health occupations and professions, the authors propose a critical reflection on the role played by the state in the promotion of public interest and the delegation of this role to professional bodies, using a study of an occupational group in the health sector that was carried out in Portugal. The discussion is developed within the domain of the social conditio…
Questões deontológicas e de metodologia de investigação em sociologia
O artigo tem como objetivo refletir sobre um conjunto de questões deontológicas e teórico-metodológicas que se colocam aos sociólogos no caso particular das investigações que realizam sobre as profissões e o associativismo profissional. O ponto de partida desta reflexão foi um estudo realizado no ano de 2008 na área das profissões da saúde e enquadra-se numa reflexão mais ampla sobre o exercício profissional dos sociólogos
Automedicação, saberes e racionalidades leigas em mudança1
Analisam-se neste texto os saberes e racionalidades leigas em que se inscrevem as práticas de automedicação. O objectivo é demonstrar, após uma breve recensão crítica dos principais marcos teóricos da análise dos saberes leigos frente aos saberes periciais, as actuais formas de apropriação e reconversão leiga do saber pericial e as modalidades de pericialização que tais saberes comuns revelam. A discussão sobre as novas formas de dependência leig…
Regulation, public interest and research in the professional field
Taking into account the social conflicts and the many forces present in the domain of health occupations and professions, the authors propose a critical reflection on the role played by the state in the promotion of public interest and the delegation of this role to professional bodies, using a study of an occupational group in the health sector that was carried out in Portugal. The discussion is developed within the domain of the social conditio…
Medicamentos, consumos de performance e culturas terapêuticas em mudança
O uso de fármacos e produtos naturais para a gestão do desempenho pessoal, aqui designado consumos de performance, constitui o foco deste artigo e dá suporte a uma reflexão analítica sobre a mudança nas culturas terapêuticas. Tendo por referência a atual problemática dafarmacologização, bem como o lugar do natural na expansão do uso do medicamento, demonstra-se que a farmacologização do quotidiano está a emergir noutros campos, que não exclusivam…
Medications, youth therapeutic cultures and performance consumptions
This article analyses performance consumptions among young people. The theme is explored along two main axes. The first concerns the social heterogeneity in this field, considered on two levels: the different purposes for those investments - cognitive/mental and physical performance; and the different social contexts - university and work - where performance practices and dispositions may be fostered. The second axis explores the roles of pharmac…
Histórias de (uma) vida
Partindo da experincia de investigao num estudo sociolgico sobre a psicofarmacologizao da velhice, cuja metodologia incluiu a realizao de histrias de vida, o presente artigo visa discutir alguns dilemas ticos e correspondentes desafios metodolgicos inerentes a esta tcnica e, em particular, as especificidades da sua aplicao junto da populao idosa. O estudo, desenvolvido no concelho de Almada, contemplou a realizao de 30 entrevistas de histrias de …
Ageing and memory medication
This article focuses on the social rationales underlying the consumption or rejection of medication for memory by the elderly. Our analysis is set within the wider frame of the current use of psychopharmaceuticals for the enhancement of everyday performance, discussing its relationship to new cultures of ageing. Our results, from a recently concluded study, point to different patterns of investment in memory in old age. On the one hand, we found …
Pharmaceuticalisation and the social management of sleep in old age
This paper discusses sleep as a social phenomenon, analysing it in the older population within the frame of a growing pharmaceuticalisation of conditions associated with old age. Two analytical dimensions are privileged: one pertains to patterns of sleep in old age, showing these patterns to be socially differentiated; while another has to do with the subjective experience of sleep, particularly in terms of the social meanings attributed to sleep…
Beyond health
With an increasing range of products in global and local markets, more options are available for individuals to enhance their image and their (cognitive, social and physical) performance. These 'performance consumptions' relate to ideals of well-being and improvement, and are based on constructed desires, expectations and needs that go beyond the (often blurred) dichotomy of health and illness. Drawing from mixed-methods research in Maputo, Mozam…
Transformações do trabalho em contextos de pressão para o desempenho profissional
O presente artigo consubstancia-se numa reflexão teórica sobre as transformações na natureza e nos tempos de trabalho em contextos de elevada pressão para o desempenho, tendo por base três grupos profissionais: jornalistas, enfermeiros e polícias. Salientam-se as tendências para o aumento das competências tecnológicas e digitais, do controlo sobre o trabalho sob a forma de tecnovigilância, do escrutínio sobre a atividade dos profissionais, e do c…
I heard about some pills»
Departing from a broader sociological study, this article presents exploratory research seeking to analyse practices of online information exchange on the consumption of medicines and food supplements among students, mainly to improve cognitive performance. It aims to show that the Internet is a relevant space which should be considered when analysing where lay people, specifically students, get information about medicines. The empirical field wa…
Medicines and Medication Literacy
This article discusses results from a sociological study on (i) the sources and use of information on medicines and/or supplements and (ii) the self-assessment of how informed participants were about the last medicine or supplement they purchased. It seeks to demonstrate the plurality of information sources (expert and lay) that individuals call upon—with which they build up their medication literacy—and their perception of the information they h…
Nurses Under Pressure
This article discusses the relationship between the demands on nurses’ professional performance and adherence to the use of medicines and supplements for their management. This approach allows us to analyze the transformations of nursing work and how nurses use various natural and pharmaceutical resources to cope with the pressures they face in their professional activities. To understand the interconnection between the transformations in nursing…
Medication literacy and its social contextuality
This article aims to contribute to the discussion about medication literacy, by focussing on the social contextuality of the information mobilised in the use of medicines. We aim to explore the social construction processes of medication literacy, as an essential dimension for a more layperson-centred approach in the promotion of literacy in this field. This approach is justified by the growing social and cultural dissemination of medication use,…
Medication use for the management of professional performance
This 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…
Sociology (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Health, Nursing, Elderly Care (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Social science (5 works) · Consumption (sociology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)