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      Psychedelic medicalization, public discourse, and the morality of ego dissolution

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      International Journal of Cultural Studies
      SAGE Publications

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          Abstract

          Emerging from a diverse and long history of shamanic and religious cultural practices, psychedelic substances are increasingly being foregrounded as medicines by an assemblage of scientific research groups, media institutions, government drug authorities, and patient and consumer populations. Considering scientific studies and recent popular media associated with the medicalization of psychedelic substances, this article responds to scholarly debates over the imbrication of scientific knowledge and moral discourse. It contends that, while scientific research into psychedelic medicine presents itself as amoral and objective, it often reverts to moral and political claims in public discourse. We illustrate how psychedelic medicine discourse in recent popular media in the United States and the United Kingdom is naturalizing specific moral and political orientations as pharmacological and healthy. The article traces how psychedelic substances have become ego-dissolving medicines invested with neoliberal and anti-authoritarian agency.

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                Journal
                International Journal of Cultural Studies
                International Journal of Cultural Studies
                SAGE Publications
                1367-8779
                1460-356X
                November 2021
                June 09 2021
                November 2021
                : 24
                : 6
                : 917-935
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Anthropology, Xiamen University, China
                [2 ]Department of Bioethics, Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, USA
                Article
                10.1177/13678779211019424
                57d069ac-9320-4323-854a-114b8d853f55
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