Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control /

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"Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produccd a construction of opiate addicts...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Heroin abuse > Social aspects > United States.
Heroin abuse > Research > United States.
Drug addiction > Research > United States.
Drug addicts > Research > United States.
Drug addicts > Government policy > United States.
Heroin Dependence > history
Drug and Narcotic Control > history
Heroin Dependence > etiology
Research > history
Héroïnomanie > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Héroïnomanie > Recherche > États-Unis.
Toxicomanie > Recherche > États-Unis.
Toxicomanes > Recherche > États-Unis.
Toxicomanes > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > Drug Dependence.
Drug addiction > Research.
Drug addicts > Government policy.
Drug addicts > Research.
Heroin abuse > Research.
Heroin abuse > Social aspects.
Drogenabhängigkeit
Persönlichkeitskonstrukt
Wissenschaftstheorie
Gesellschaft
Drugsverslaving.
Onderzoek.
Overheidsbeleid.
Geschichte 1900-1945.
United States
United States.
USA
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Table of Contents:
  • Heroin addiction and urban vice reform
  • The opportunistic approach
  • The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic
  • Constructing the addict career
  • The junkie as psychopath
  • Healing vision and bureaucratic reality
  • The addict in the social body.

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