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Street Addicts in the Political Economy

Author : Alisse Waterston
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781566395748
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book Street Addicts in the Political Economy written by Alisse Waterston and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-22 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Alisse Waterston reveals the economic, political, and ideological forces that shape the nature of street-addict life. Disputing the view that hard-core, low-income drug users are social marginals situated in deviant subcultures, the author dispels popular images of the mythic, dark dope fiend haunting our city streets. Using dramatic, first-person accounts from New York City addicts, Waterston analyzes their position in the social structure, the kind of work -- both legal and illegal -- they perform, and their relations with family, friends, and lovers. She presents a moving account of daily life from the addict's point of view and demonstrates how addicts are structurally vulnerable to the larger sociocultural system within which they live.

Street Addicts in the Political Economy

Author : Alisse Waterston
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1439904162
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Street Addicts in the Political Economy written by Alisse Waterston and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-25 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The moving first-person accounts of drug addicts on the streets of New York.

The Social Value of Drug Addicts

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315417154
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)

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Download or read book The Social Value of Drug Addicts written by Merrill Singer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 advancing innovative arguments about the social construction of drug users and their role in contemporary society, this book is an important contribution to public health, medical anthropology, popular culture, and related fields.

The Face of Social Suffering

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610263
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book The Face of Social Suffering written by Merrill Singer and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2005-11-16 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brief, compelling life story of a drug addict poses and answers questions of broad public concern about social responsibility, illicit drug use, hidden economies, and social inequality. Merrill Singer, a medical anthropologist involved in the public health impact of alcohol and illicit drug use, conducted interviews over a seven-year period with Tony, a street drug addict who grew up in the inner city. Tony learned the ways of using and selling drugs from his father, became an enforcer in a street gang, spent considerable time in prison, committed seemingly heartless, violent acts, and has had to struggle with the knowledge that he suffers from HIV infection. Tonys life story is an insider, personal view of a tumultuous, marginalized world that intertwines closely with the wider social milieu constructed and sustained by the U.S. political economy. Unique to this book is its attempt to understand the forces that contribute to the risky behavior of drug use, even at a time when drug users know about its deadly and damaging connection to diseases like HIV and hepatitis. Tonys story demonstrates that none of us make choices in a vacuum. Further, the book addresses important issues about how structures of social inequality in our society impact the lives and options of those at the bottom of the social ladder.

Drugs in America

Author : Ansley Hamid
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780834210608
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Drugs in America written by Ansley Hamid and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 1998 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This basic analysis of the drug problem in America describes the historical and present use of mood-altering drugs; the economics of drug trafficking; theories of addiction; and the resulting crime, violence, and community deterioration. In addition, the author focuses on the effects of legalizing drugs and the role of law enforcement. This is an ideal text for any course discussing drug use and abuse.

The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods

Author : Bruce Thyer
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761919056
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Social Work Research Methods written by Bruce Thyer and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the definitive resource for anyone doing research in social work. It details both quantitative and qualitative methods and data collection, as well as suggesting the methods appropriate to particular types of studies. It also covers issues such as ethics, gender and ethnicity, and offers advice on how to write up and present your research.

Addiction Trajectories

Author : Eugene Raikhel
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822395878
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Addiction Trajectories written by Eugene Raikhel and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment clinics in Russia to Pentecostal addiction ministries in Puerto Rico, the essays are linked by the contributors' attention to the dynamics—including the cultural, scientific, legal, religious, personal, and social—that shape the meaning of "addiction" in particular settings. They examine how it is understood and experienced among professionals working in the criminal justice system of a rural West Virginia community; Hispano residents of New Mexico's Espanola Valley, where the rate of heroin overdose is among the highest in the United States; homeless women participating in an outpatient addiction therapy program in the Midwest; machine-gaming addicts in Las Vegas, and many others. The collection's editors suggest "addiction trajectories" as a useful rubric for analyzing the changing meanings of addiction across time, place, institutions, and individual lives. Pursuing three primary trajectories, the contributors show how addiction comes into being as an object of knowledge, a site of therapeutic intervention, and a source of subjective experience. Contributors. Nancy D. Campbell, E. Summerson Carr, Angela Garcia, William Garriott, Helena Hansen, Anne M. Lovell, Emily Martin, Todd Meyers, Eugene Raikhel, A. Jamie Saris, Natasha Dow Schüll

Global Ethnography

Author : Michael Burawoy
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520924390
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Global Ethnography written by Michael Burawoy and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this follow-up to the highly successful Ethnography Unbound, Michael Burawoy and nine colleagues break the bounds of conventional sociology, to explore the mutual shaping of local struggles and global forces. In contrast to the lofty debates between radical theorists, these nine studies excavate the dynamics and histories of globalization by extending out from the concrete, everyday world. The authors were participant observers in diverse struggles over extending citizenship, medicalizing breast cancer, dumping toxic waste, privatizing nursing homes, the degradation of work, the withdrawal of welfare rights, and the elaboration of body politics. From their insider vantage points, they show how groups negotiate, circumvent, challenge, and even re-create the complex global web that entangles them. Traversing continents and extending over three years, this collaborative research developed its own distinctive method of "grounded globalization" to grasp the evaporation of traditional workplaces, the dissolution of enclaved communities, and the fluidity of identities. Forged between the local and global, these compelling essays make a powerful case for ethnography's insight into global dynamics.

Something Dangerous

Author : Merrill Singer
Publisher : Waveland Press
ISBN 13 : 1478610271
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Something Dangerous written by Merrill Singer and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2005-06-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This research-based, theory-driven ethnographic account of the changing underground world of drug use and associated health effects covers the essential ground in a succinct, authoritative fashion. After a thorough outline of the nature and history of drug use dynamics, the author assesses the role of youth in new drug use practices, the impact of illicit drug distribution and the war on drugs, and the public health risks of trends in drug use behavior. Additionally, it considers mechanisms for effective public health response to emergent health risks associated with changing drug use patterns. Because Singer carefully explains all technical terms, uses clarifying examples, and avoids jargon, readers will walk away from this volume with a deeper grasp of this social problem; with appreciation for how change figures into drug use practices; and with knowledge of key social, cultural, political-economic, criminal justice, and health factors. Ideal as a text in the undergraduate classroom, its targeted focus and careful exploration of new concepts and theories also make it appealing for use at more advanced levels.

Security

Author : Philippe Bourbeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107107407
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Security written by Philippe Bourbeau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-26 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a rich and unparalleled understanding of how the concept of security is studied in nine different disciplines.

Unhealthy Health Policy

Author : Arachu Castro
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
ISBN 13 : 9780759105119
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Unhealthy Health Policy written by Arachu Castro and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal the prevailing social inequalities that often represent significant threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, and women. The authors define an anthropology of policy concerned with decision-making and the impact of health policy on human lives. It will be a critical resource for researchers and practitioners in medical anthropology, medical sociology, public policy, and public health care. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Power in the Blood

Author : William N. Elwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135679932
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)

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Download or read book Power in the Blood written by William N. Elwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the role communication plays in advancing society's and the individual's understanding of HIV/AIDS, with examples from around the globe. It is of particular relevance to scholars in comm, public health, health psychology, and related disciplines

Commodifying Bodies

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761940340
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Commodifying Bodies written by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Breaking with established approaches which prioritize the body as 'text', the chapters in this book examine not only images of the body-turned-merchandise but actually existing organisms considered at once as material entities, semi-magical tokens, symbolic vectors and founts of lived experience. The topics covered range from the cultural disposal and media treatment of corpses, the biopolitics of cells, sperm banks and eugenics, to the international trafficking of kidneys, the development of 'transplant tourism', to the idioms of corporeal exploitation among prizefighters as a limiting case of fleshly commodity".--BOOKJACKET.

NIJ Catalog

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book NIJ Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains information on criminal justice publications and other materials available from NIJ's information clearinghouse, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS), and other sources.

The Governance of Female Drug Users

Author : Du Rose, Natasha
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447334469
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Governance of Female Drug Users written by Du Rose, Natasha and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is the first to examine how female drug user's identities, and hence their experiences, are shaped by drug policies. It analyses how the subjectivities ascribed to women users within drug policy sustain them in their problematic use and reinforce their social exclusion. Challenging popular misconceptions of female users, the book calls for the formulation of drug policies to be based on gender equity and social justice. It will appeal to academics in the social sciences, practitioners and policy makers.

War and Peace

Author : Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 0857283073
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (572 download)

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Download or read book War and Peace written by Bryan S. Turner and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflections on Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace,” these original essays examine various facets of violence and human efforts to create peace. Religion is deeply involved in both processes: ones that produce violence and ones that seek to create harmony. In the war on terror, radical religion is often seen to be a major cause of inter-group violence. However, these essays show a much more complex picture in which religion is often on the receiving end of conflict that has its origin in the actions of the state in response to tensions between majorities and minorities. As this volume demonstrates, the more public religion becomes, the more likely it is to be imbricated in communal strife.

Feminist Theories of Crime

Author : Merry Morash
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351567136
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Feminist Theories of Crime written by Merry Morash and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection re-imagines the field of criminology with insights gleaned from feminist theory. Works included here illustrate that gender is a key organizing principle of social life. This means that men and women have gender, that patriarchy as well as gender must be theorized, and that other systems of oppression such as race and class must also be studied to fully understand the crime problem and the criminal justice system. Finally, the articles collected here exemplify the feminist concern for thinking consciously about how and why we do our research with the crucial goal of producing knowledge that will promote social justice.