Comprehending Drug Use : Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins.
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
2010
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| Series: | Studies in medical anthropology.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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, publ. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (239 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-221) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813549934 0813549930 9780813548043 0813548047 9780813548036 0813548039 1283383160 9781283383165 9786613383167 6613383163 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
