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Challenging the Risks in Online Medicine Purchasing: Respectable Deviance

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Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online

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This chapter focuses on the risks in online medicine purchasing and utilises a theoretical framework – respectable deviance to underpin how the risks are challenged. Incorporating three stages involving the construction of deviance, the justification of deviance and the management of respectability, respectable deviance provides insight into how online medicine consumers account for their activity, which sometimes transgresses regulation and disputes authority.

The healthcare environment is changing. People are becoming empowered in more areas of their lives and doing things online that they would never have been able to before [Forum member]

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    Thomas J. Scheff, a student of Goffman, claims that for the majority of his career, Goffman was a symbolic interactionist, specifically in the tradition of Cooley. However, Goffman himself never admitted this.

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    This is beginning to be understood in the context of the debate surrounding the EU regulation regarding ‘The Right to be Forgotten’ (http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/files/factsheets/factsheet_data_protection_en.pdf), which seeks to give people the right to request that companies remove embarrassing, inaccurate or personal data from their databases.

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Sugiura, L. (2018). Challenging the Risks in Online Medicine Purchasing: Respectable Deviance. In: Respectable Deviance and Purchasing Medicine Online. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74485-8_4

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