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Drugs and Culture : Knowledge, Consumption and Policy.

Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific ps...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hunt, Geoffrey, 1947-
Otros Autores: Milhet, Maitena, Bergeron, Henri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • List of Figures and Tables; Notes on Contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Drugs and Culture; PART I KNOWLEDGE: SCIENCE, MEDICINE, AND DISCOURSES ON DRUGS; 1. Social Fear, Drug-Related Beliefs, and Drug Policy; 2 Blinding Ourselves With Science: The Chronic Infections of Our Thinking on Psychoactive Substances; 3 Epidemiology as a Model: Processing Data through a Black Box?; 4 Opiate Addiction: A Revival of Medical Involvement; 5 This is Not Medicalization; 6 Drugs: A Sociological Blind Spot? A Look at the French Experience.