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First Person Drug Accounts: Does the Truth Matter?
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Desc: Discussion paper to provoke debate at St George's Medical School
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- Slide 1:First Person Drug Accounts Does the Truth Matter? Anne Welsh
- Slide 2:Autobiographical Writing O wad some Power the giftie gie us To see oursels as ithers see us! ~ Robert Burns, ‘To A Louse’
- Slide 3:Derrida on Drugs We cannot trust in the simple opposition of symptom and cause … any more than we can count on a simple opposition of memory and forgetting … The pharmakon will always be apprehended as both antidote and poison … the drug addict may seek to forget even as he takes on the work of an anamnesic analysis … To this end the addict uses a \"technique,\" a technical supplement which he also interprets as being \"natural\" … Another thread would bring us to that very common distrust as regards the artificial, the intrumentalization of memory, thus as regards the pharmakon, both as poison and as antidote. Derrida, J. (1995) 'The rhetoric of drugs', in E. Weber (ed.) J. Derrida. Points: interviews, 197
