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Confronting the drug control establishment : Alfred Lindesmith as a public intellectual /

"Confronting the Drug Control Establishment is a biography of Alfred R. Lindesmith and an intellectual history of his times. A sociologist at Indiana University, Lindesmith believed legal prohibition of addictive drugs was futile and wrote widely on the threat to democracy inherent in such a po...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keys, David P.
Otros Autores: Galliher, John F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©2000.
Colección:SUNY series in deviance and social control.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Origins and overview of the professional life of Alfred Ray Lindesmith
  • Lindesmith's experience in the Chicago School of Sociology: the influence of Herbert Blum ...
  • A revised theory of opiate addiction and the writing of the book Opiate addiction
  • Contributions to psychotherapy, social psychology, and symbolic interaction
  • Lindesmith versus Anslinger: efforts to reform national drug policy, 1937-1950 and the film Drug addict
  • Writing The addict and the law: a statement of policy
  • Public discourse: Lindesmith in the role of humanist citizen and public intellectual.