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Social Science & Medicine

ISSN 0277-9536

2 papers in the library · 90 citations · publishing 2019-2024

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Exploring the discourses around microdosing psychedelics within the r/microdosing online community

Social Science & Medicine February 22, 2024 Ioana Pop, Erwin Gielens, Hannah Kottmann et al. 4 citations

In the present contribution, we examine the practice of microdosing psychedelics (microdosing) through textual analysis of the content produced by a dedicated online community, the r/microdosing subreddit. We collected a comprehensive dataset of publicly available submissions from this community and used structural topic modelling to identify and analyse the prevalent topics within the...

Purging and the body in the therapeutic use of ayahuasca

Social Science & Medicine August 31, 2019 Evgenia Fotiou, Alex K. Gearin 86 citations

Ayahuasca is a psychoactive plant mixture used in ceremonial contexts throughout Western Amazonia. Its use has expanded globally in recent decades and become popular among westerners who travel to the Peruvian Amazon in increasing numbers to experience its reportedly healing effects. Through a review of relevant literature on Amazonian shamanism, combined with the authors' ethnographic data...