Title
Governing Habits [electronic resource] : Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic / Eugene Raikhel.
ISBN
150170706X
9781501707063
9781501703126
9781501703133
Published
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (pages cm)
Local Notes
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Notes
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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"-- Publisher's Web site.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE - Archive Complete Supplement VII.
Project MUSE - Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Supplement VII.
Added to Catalog
August 28, 2019
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
States of crisis
Assembling narcology
Selling sobriety
Prostheses for the will
Rehabilitation from abroad.
Also listed under
Project Muse.