発表者
Eugene Raikhel氏（University of Chicago）
タイトル
Pathological desire: Debating addiction and evidence in Putin’s Russia
要旨
This paper traces a debate, which has taken place over recent years among specialists in addiction medicine in Russia, concerning the classification, etiology, and ontological status of drug and alcohol addiction. On one side stands a group of influential researchers who have promoted a highly medicalized idea of addiction as psychopathology, namely a “psychosis-like” condition, the chief sign of which is “pathological desire” or craving, and which warrants interventions analogous to those used for severe mental illness. On the other are physicians who speak in the name of “global science” and seek to promote evidence-based interventions (including harm-reduction measures and psychosocial therapies), many of whom regard addiction to be a maladaptive form of behavior. In this talk, I interpret this debate as shaped both by the cultural politics of drugs in contemporary Russia and by the politics of medical expertise around addiction. I suggest that this debate not only tells us something about epistemology and authority in Russian medicine, but also provides a window onto broader debates about science and medicine as potentially “local” or “global”.
　
パネリスト
西真如氏（京都大学）
照山絢子氏（筑波大学）