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The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano ad...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Garcia, Angela, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2010.
Temas:
Heroin abuse > New Mexico.
Drug addicts > New Mexico.
Heroin Dependence > rehabilitation
Drug Users
Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
Héroïnomanie > Nouveau-Mexique.
Toxicomanes > Nouveau-Mexique.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > Drug Dependence.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Drug addicts
Heroin abuse
Drogenabhängigkeit
Drogentherapie
New Mexico
Espanola Basin
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:The Pastoral Clinic takes us on a penetrating journey into an iconic Western landscape-northern New Mexico's Española Valley, home to the highest rate of heroin addiction and fatal overdoses in the United States. In a luminous narrative, Angela Garcia chronicles the lives of several Hispano addicts, introducing us to the intimate, physical, and institutional dependencies in which they are entangled. We discover how history pervades this region that has endured centuries of material and cultural dispossession, and we come to see its heroin problem as a contemporary expression of these co.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-235) and index.
ISBN:9780520947825
0520947827
1282660861
9781282660861
9786612660863
6612660864

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