TY - JOUR AU - Vicente, Filipe Nunes PY - 2002/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Bruxas, Judeus, Centeio Louco e Beldades de Veneza: Destinos e Perdas de uma Memória Europeia de Drogas Esquecidas JF - Interações: Sociedade e as novas modernidades JA - INTERC VL - 2 IS - 3 SE - Artigos DO - UR - https://interacoes-ismt.com/index.php/revista/article/view/51 SP - AB - <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 8.0px Helvetica; color: #231f20;"><!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: ScalaSans; color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">O autor considera que o abuso de subst&acirc;ncias psicoactivas diz mais respeito &agrave; hist&oacute;ria dos povos e das culturas do que ao conhecimento cient&iacute;fico, sendo &oacute;bvio que as consequ&ecirc;ncias da intoxica&ccedil;&atilde;o ser&atilde;o sempre territ&oacute;rio de avalia&ccedil;&atilde;o cl&iacute;nica. No entanto o autor ilustra com a mem&oacute;ria da cultura europeia medieval e renascentista o equ&iacute;voco de que ervas, po&ccedil;&otilde;es e drogas misteriosas podem proporcionar a algu&eacute;m uma alucina&ccedil;&atilde;o interessante, mas decerto n&atilde;o conseguem fazer o indiv&iacute;duo voar como uma bruxa. Assim, a condena&ccedil;&atilde;o e a persegui&ccedil;&atilde;o atingiram, na Idade M&eacute;dia e Renascen&ccedil;a, curandeiros, m&eacute;dicos e simples curiosos, apenas porque essas pessoas tinham um contacto demasiado &iacute;ntimo com as subst&acirc;ncias proibidas. O que &eacute; verdadeiramente not&aacute;vel, por&eacute;m, &eacute; que as drogas referidas j&aacute; eram conhecidas da cultura e medicina popular europeia muito antes de se tornarem suspeitas. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: ScalaSans; color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Summary </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 8.0pt; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: ScalaSans; color: #231f20; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The author states that psychoactive substance abuse is more a matter of cultural experience than a scientific issue. The consequences of intoxication, doubtless, may and should be accessed from a medical standpoint, but the author appeals to the memory of ancient european culture to illustrate the misleading bias of drug use. Herbs, plants and ointments could lead someone to a halucinatory experience, but they would be unable to make him or her fly like a witch. Thus, damnation and persecution were directed, during the Renaissance and the Middle Ages, against doctors, healers and herbalists only because they were too close to the forbidden substances. What is remarkable, however, is that most of the drugs involved were well known by european culture, long before they become suspicious.</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> <span lang="PT"></span></span></p> <!--EndFragment--></p> ER -