The social value of drug addicts : the uses of the useless /

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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 anthropologist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Singer, Merrill (Autor), Page, J. Bryan, 1947- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2014]
Temas:
Drug addicts.
Social values.
Drug abuse > Social aspects.
Drug abusers.
Mass media.
Social perception.
Drug Users > history
Mass Media
Social Perception
Social Values
Communications Media
Toxicomanes.
Valeurs sociales.
Toxicomanie > Aspect social.
Médias.
Perception sociale.
drug addicts.
mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Drogenmissbrauch
Sozialer Ertrag
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Drugs, race, and gender in the social construction of drug consumers: recognizing the origins of othering
  • Drug users through the ages: when did we decide addicts were a separate category?
  • Representations of addicts and the construction of prohibitions
  • Imagine that: drug users and literature
  • Picture this: pictorial construction of drug users in the world of film
  • The legal construction of drug users: policy, the courts, incarcerating institutions, police practice, and the war on drugs
  • Drug users in social science: the others we've made
  • From the making and using of the useless to social integration.

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