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This chapter provides concluding remarks, drawing together the research on the opportunities and risks for online medicine consumers. It highlights the significance of the respectable deviance framework in understanding how consumers utilise the opportunities and respond to the risks involved in online medicine purchasing. It is argued that an analysis of online medicine purchasing must be located in a critical discussion of construction and hegemony.
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Sugiura, L. (2018). Conclusion. 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_5
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