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Fuenzalida, Ariel.

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Pharmakontologies: Philosophy and the question of drugs.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pharmakontologies: Philosophy and the question of drugs./
Author:	Fuenzalida, Ariel.
Description:	285 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-08, Section: A, page: 3031.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International70-08A.
Subject:	Anthropology, Cultural. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=NR50225
ISBN:	9780494502259

Pharmakontologies: Philosophy and the question of drugs.
Fuenzalida, Ariel.

Pharmakontologies: Philosophy and the question of drugs. - 285 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-08, Section: A, page: 3031.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Western Ontario (Canada), 2009.

From a philosophical perspective, modern drug laws and policies are ontologically predicated on an outdated mechanistic view of the universe. This reductionist view assumes that the effects of drugs are solely caused and can be fully explained by their pharmacological properties. We are dissatisfied with this rationalist stance that approaches the problem of drugs in terms of what has been identified as "pharmacological determinism." Hence our problem: How can we think of drugs differently? Although the task at hand is interdisciplinary in scope, this overarching question is explored from the basis of a neo-materialist line of thought that takes its lead from the works of Benjamin, Bakhtin, Burroughs, Foucault, and Deleuze & Guattari, among others. In essence, we argue that social context, psychological idiosyncrasies, and (sub)cultural differences play crucial roles in determining the actions of different drugs on the individual and social body. Moreover, as conceptual objects, drugs open up an entire speculative field whose questions reach beyond the problem of addiction. Of central concern is the conceptual development of what Deleuze and Guattari have called "drug assemblages," that is, a relational understanding of drugs that take larger material, informational, and socio-cultural processes into account. In so doing, a non-deterministic "philosophy of drugs" is pursued whose problems are based on the ambiguity of the pharmakon and on how it establishes different types of relationships with the body.

ISBN: 9780494502259Subjects--Topical Terms:

735016
Anthropology, Cultural.

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