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
Main Author: Page, J. Bryan
Other Authors: Singer, Merrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ethnology.
Drug abuse.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SELF-HELP > Substance Abuse & Addictions > General.
PSYCHOLOGY > Psychopathology > Addiction.
Ethnologie.
Toxicomanie.
Substance-Related Disorders
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 of drug ethnography-methodology that involves access to the hidden world of drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, publ.
Physical Description:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813548043

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