Comprehending Drug Use : Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins.

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Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a comprehensive examination of the whole field...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Page, J. Bryan
Other Authors: Singer, Merrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Studies in medical anthropology.
Subjects:
Drug abuse.
Ethnology.
Substance-Related Disorders
Toxicomanie.
Ethnologie.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Drug abuse
Ethnology
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Through ethnographic eyes
  • The emergence of drug ethnography
  • Systematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacology
  • Drug ethnography since the emergence of AIDS
  • Drugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky down
  • The conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careers
  • Career paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to calling
  • Gender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about women
  • The future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments.

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