Drug Nation

Robertson, Roy; Plant, Moira; Miller, Patrick

doi:10.1093/med/9780199544790.001.1

2010

DOI: 10.1093/med/9780199544790.001.1

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Drug Nation

Roy Robertson

Moira Plant

Patrick Miller

Abstract: Drug Nation provides an accessible and lucid introduction to some of the main health and social issues related to illicit drugs and their use, and reviews a range of popular drugs—including amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine, Ecstasy (MDMA), heroin and LSD—whilst considering the law related to such substances.

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Of Drugs and Droogs: Cultural Dynamics, Psychopharmacology, and Neuroscience in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

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2018

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Anthony Burgess's A Clockwork Orange is rarely considered in terms of psychopharmacology. Furthermore, the connection between the novel and the development of neuroscience-including the use of drugs that affect the brain-has yet to be considered. This essay explains the function and representation of drugs in the novel within the context of neuroscience's development during the 1960s. I argue that the novel engages the dynamics among psychopharmacology, neuroscience, and psychiatry, and investigates how these specialties function within Western culture to mediate between dominant and subordinate divisions. As such, a neuroscientific reading of A Clockwork Orange articulates how counterculture perverts psychopharmacology, driving it away from the normalizing discourses of psychiatric power (as it is used to correct deviant mental states). Simultaneously, it demonstrates the failures of the politics of a reactionary, fear-based neuroscience. Ultimately, the novel both reflects on and intervenes in a critical biopolitical shift in regulating the brain.

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Of Drugs and Droogs: Cultural Dynamics, Psychopharmacology, and Neuroscience in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

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Of Drugs and Droogs: Cultural Dynamics, Psychopharmacology, and Neuroscience in Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange

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