Governing habits : treating alcoholism in the post-Soviet clinic /

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Author / Creator:Raikhel, Eugene A., 1975- author.
Imprint:Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource (xii, 231 pages)
Language:English
Series:Expertise: cultures and technologies of knowledge
Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11408617
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ISBN:9781501707063
150170706X
9781501703126
1501703129
9781501703133
1501703137
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
In English.
Print version record.
Summary:"Critics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions and critiques obscured more than they revealed. Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in postSoviet Russia. Rather than interpreting narcology as a Soviet survival or a local clinical world on the wane in the face of globalizing evidence-based medicine, Raikhel examines the transformation of the medical management of alcoholism in Russia over the past twenty years"--
Other form:Print version: Raikhel, Eugene A., 1975- Governing habits. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016 9781501703126
Standard no.:10.7591/9781501707063

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