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Schneider, C. E. (1997). Patients, doctors, and decisions: Rethinking autonomy. New York, NY: Oxford University Press. Smith-Warner, S. , & Yaun, S. S. (1998). Alcohol and breast cancer in women: A pooled analysis of cohort studies. Journal of the American Medical Association, 279(7), 535–540. Sulik, G. (2005). When women need care: How breast cancer ‘survivors’ cope with being carereceivers. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University at Albany, State University of NY. The New York State Task Force on Life and the Law (NYSTF).
For example, the same drug can be rebranded into a drug for a slightly different condition – such as Prozac into Sarafem for premenstrual dysphoric disorder (Greenslit, 2005) – or combined with another drug to create a new brand and, hence, patent. One such combination, Vytorin (a combination of the cholesterol medications Zocor and Zetia) was heavily advertised until research showed that it was less effective than Zocor alone, a drug which is available as a generic at a third of the cost (Associated Press, 2008).
First, the medical consumer is an individualized role. The medical consumer must gather and decipher medical information, make the right choices, and take full responsibility for these choices regardless of their outcomes. While ownership can be empowering to some, it can also be a burden. In addition, this model tends toward a person-blame paradigm that creates unrealistic views of prevention, risk, and cure/success. In the health contexts we researched, the message is that women can control their fertility or breast cancer if they locate the problems/causes within their lifestyles and decisions, and the solutions within the system of modern medicine.