PMID- 31573107
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210421
LR  - 20221005
IS  - 0745-5194 (Print)
IS  - 0745-5194 (Linking)
VI  - 35
IP  - 1
DP  - 2021 Mar
TI  - MDMA Is Not Ecstasy: The Production of Pharmaceutical Safety through Documents in 
      Clinical Trials.
PG  - 5-24
LID - 10.1111/maq.12548 [doi]
AB  - Nonprofit efforts to develop +/-3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-better 
      known as the street drug Ecstasy-as a prescription pharmaceutical provide the 
      opportunity to examine recent theorizations of pharmaceuticals as fluid objects 
      transformed in new informational and material environments. Drawing from 
      ethnographic research, this article interrogates MDMA researchers' own 
      distinction between MDMA and the street drug Ecstasy. While researchers maintain 
      that pure MDMA is distinct from Ecstasy, this article argues that the difference 
      between the two hangs not on a distinction in substance, but on a distinction in 
      safety that must be produced through the trial. This article tracks the 
      production of safety through the inter-connected work of clinical documents, 
      which manage both which bodies are allowed to absorb the drug and which bodily 
      events count as effects. MDMA's safety emerges from the careful management of 
      relations through these documentary practices.
CI  - (c) 2019 by the American Anthropological Association.
FAU - Hendy, Katherine
AU  - Hendy K
AD  - University of Michigan.
LA  - eng
GR  - T32 HG010030/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200518
PL  - United States
TA  - Med Anthropol Q
JT  - Medical anthropology quarterly
JID - 8405037
RN  - 0 (Illicit Drugs)
RN  - KE1SEN21RM (N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine)
SB  - IM
MH  - Anthropology, Medical
MH  - Clinical Trials as Topic
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Illicit Drugs
MH  - Legislation, Drug
MH  - *N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine
MH  - *Pharmaceutical Research
PMC - PMC7133022
MID - NIHMS1570652
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - clinical trials
OT  - knowledge production
OT  - pharmaceuticals
OT  - psychedelics
OT  - science studies
EDAT- 2019/10/02 06:00
MHDA- 2021/04/22 06:00
PMCR- 2021/04/01
CRDT- 2019/10/02 06:00
PHST- 2019/07/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2019/02/22 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/07/09 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/10/02 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/04/22 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/10/02 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2021/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.1111/maq.12548 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Med Anthropol Q. 2021 Mar;35(1):5-24. doi: 10.1111/maq.12548. Epub 2020 May 18.