Drugs and culture : knowledge, consumption, and policy /
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| Imprint: | Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011. |
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| Description: | xxii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8391802 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Introduction: drugs and culture
- Part I. Knowledge
- Science, Medicine, and Discourses on Drugs: Social fear, drug-related beliefs, and drug policy
- Blinding ourselves with science: the chronic infections of our thinking on psychoactive substances
- Epidemiology as a model: processing data through a black box?
- Opiate addiction: a revival of medical involvement
- This is not medicalization
- Drugs: a sociological blind spot? A look at the French experience
- Part II. Consumption
- Cultures of Drug Use: Drug consumption: a social ritual? The examples of tobacco and cocaine
- Dance drug scenes: a global perspective
- Contemporary use of natural hallucinogens: from techno subcultures to mainstream values
- Ecstasy, gender, and accountability in a rave culture
- Drug use in Europe: specific national characteristics or shared models?
- Part III. Policy or Politics? The Cultural Dyamics of Public Responses
- Modernity and anti-modernity: drug policy and political culture in the United States and Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries
- Assessing global drug problems, policies, and reform proposals
- Homelessness, addiction, and politically structured suffering in the US war on drugs
- Knowledge and policies to reduce drug supply in France: some misunderstandings
- The culture of drug policy
- Index
