The social value of drug addicts : the uses of the useless /
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 anthropologist...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Walnut Creek, CA :
Left Coast Press,
[2014]
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
