Philippe De Félice
“Shamanic purity” and other 20th-century paradigms on drugs
By: GIORGIO SAMORINI – When scholars in the humanistic and scientific fields of research encounter drug-related topics, they express moral judgments dictated by a series of paradigms concerning drugs that emerged in the 20th century. Their cultural and psychological conditioning influence both methodologies and the interpretation of data, and consequently, research results. Limiting the focus…