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The social value of drug addicts : the uses of the useless
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The social value of drug addicts : the uses of the useless / Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page.
ISBN
1315417162
1315417170
1611321190
9781315417165
9781315417172
9781611321197
1611321174
1611321182
9781611321173
9781611321180
9781611327519 (consumer ebook)
Publication
Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2014]
Copyright Notice Date
©2014
Physical Description
1 online resource (249 pages)
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Notes
Drugs, race, and gender in the social construction of drug consumers : Recognizing the origins of othering -- Drug Users through the Ages : When Did we decide Addicts were a Separate Category? -- Representations of Addicts and the Construction of Prohibitions -- Imagine that: Drug Users and Literature -- Picture This : Pictorial Construction of Drug Users in the World of Film -- The Legal Construction of Drug Users : Policy, the Courts, Incarcerating Institutions, Police Practice, and the War on Drugs -- Drug Users in Social Science : The Others We've Made. Conclusion.
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Summary
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless-culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalization, demonization, and even popular glamorization of addicts. Synthesizing a broad range of key literature and advan.
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Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Singer, Merrill. Social value of drug addicts. Walnut Creek, California : Left Coast Press Inc., [2014]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Drugs, race, and gender in the social construction of drug consumers: recognizing the origins of othering
Drug users through the ages: when did we decide addicts were a separate category?
Representations of addicts and the construction of prohibitions
Imagine that: drug users and literature
Picture this: pictorial construction of drug users in the world of film
The legal construction of drug users: policy, the courts, incarcerating institutions, police practice, and the war on drugs
Drug users in social science: the others we've made
From the making and using of the useless to social integration.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Communications Media
Drug Users - history
Mass Media
Social Perception
Social Values
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