PHARMACEUTICAL INTIMACY: SEX, DEATH, AND METHAMPHETAMINE
PHARMACEUTICAL INTIMACY: SEX, DEATH, AND METHAMPHETAMINE
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DOI：
10.2752/174063108x368328
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发表时间：
2008-11-01
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0.4
通讯作者：
Goodfellow, Aaron
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作者：
Goodfellow, Aaron
在这篇文章中，我从民族志工作中进行的“内部”药物和酒精治疗中心的居民在巴尔的摩，马里兰州，讨论出生的药物（AB）使用的关系。通过仔细研究一个因甲基苯丙胺成瘾而接受治疗的人的自传体描述，我试图描绘出生命和死亡有时是如何被爱和逃避等因素紧密联系在一起的，而有时又是如何被牢牢地分开的。我关注的是通过日常关系中所谓的“小事件”出现的护理伦理;它经常将生活或关系定义为“正常”或“病态”类别。我想知道的是，无论是否通过药物介导，维持或避免关系的需要对身体提出的已知要求，是如何影响到“很多人死亡”的决定或道德世界的复兴的。最后，我讨论了药物和人类之间的亲缘关系所形成的依赖和联盟所揭示的相关性的不同方面。为了遵守当前的伦理研究标准，所有知情者的姓名都已更改，以确保他们的匿名性。
In this article, I draw from ethnographic work conducted among residents of an "in-house" drug and alcohol treatment center in Baltimore, Maryland, to discuss the relationships born of pharmaceutical (ab)use. By looking in close detail at the autobiographical accounts of one man in treatment for addiction to methamphetamine, I attempt to chart the way life and death are at times brought into close proximity, and at others wedged firmly apart, by such things as love and avoidance. My concern is with the ethics of care that emerge through the so-called "small events" in everyday relations; that so often define a life or a relationship as falling under the category "normal" or "pathological". I ask how such things as the known demands placed on the body by the need to maintain or avoid relations, whether pharmaceutically mediated or not, come to bear on the decision to "lot die" or the resurgence of moral worlds. I end by discussing the different aspects of relatedness revealed by the dependencies and alliances formed by the kinship between pharmaceuticals and humans.In compliance with current ethical research standards, the names of all informants have been changed to assure their anonymity.