Merrill Singer, J Bryan Page

The Social Value of Drug Addicts (eBook, PDF)

Uses of the Useless

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In a wide-ranging analysis covering popular culture, policy, and underlying social structures, this book shows how drug addicts are socially constructed as useless burdens on society and who benefits from that portrayal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315417165
• Artikelnr.: 45260230

Autorenporträt

Merrill Singer, J Bryan Page

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One Drugs, Race, and Gender in the Social Construction of Drug Consumers
Chapter Two Drug Users through the Ages
Chapter Three Representations of Addicts and the Construction of Prohibitions
Chapter Four Imagine That: Drug Users and Literature
Chapter Five Picture This
Chapter Six The Legal Construction of Drug Users
Chapter Seven Drug Users in Social Science
Conclusion