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Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins

By Merrill Singer , J. Bryan Page

Book information

Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0813548047, 9780813548043, 0813548039, 9780813548036
LCC
HV5801 .P27 2010
Google Books ID
q1rwlkSC-P4C
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1319086 bytes)
Series
Studies in Medical Anthropology
Pages
239\239
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a comprehensive examination of the whole field of drug ethnography-methodology that involves access to the hidden world of drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, public health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, hepatitis, and other diseases), and gender, and also provide a practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers. (20091120)

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