Caroline Jean Acker

Creating the American Junkie

Addiction Research in the Classic Era of Narcotic Control

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Produktbeschreibung

"Acker presents a fascinating account of how addicts' negative image came to dominate public and official perceptions, as well as how it forced some users into the mold." -- "New England Journal of Medicine"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780801867989
• ISBN-10: 0801867983
• Artikelnr.: 21383872

Autorenporträt

Caroline Jean Acker is an associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University and cofounder of Prevention Point Pittsburgh, a needle exchange program in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. She is co-editor, with Sarah W. Tracy, of Altering American Consciousness: Essays in the History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2004).