Drugs and culture : knowledge, consumption, and policy /

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Imprint:Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2011.
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
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Other authors / contributors:Hunt, Geoffrey, 1947-
Milhet, Maitena.
Bergeron, Henri.
ISBN:9781409405436 (hardback : alk. paper)
1409405435 (hardback : alk. paper)
9781409405443 (ebook)
1409405443 (ebook)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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