Living with the Pharmakon: A Call for Futurity
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: This perspectives piece explores the tensions between the toxicity of psychoactive medications and lack of access to quality treatment and specialist nephrology care for people with, what has been defined by the medical community as, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. What becomes of livability if the system of medicine creates harm in supposed remedy while refusing remedy and creating harm? This essay calls out the limits this contradiction places on the possibilities for life, and it is concerned with what kinds of futures materialize in living with the pharmakon.
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Institution: Guilford College
Language: English
Topic: Mental Health and Psychiatry
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4403501386