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UNINA9910454824803321 |
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Autore |
Courtwright David T. <1952-> |
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Titolo |
Dark paradise [[electronic resource] ] : a history of opiate addiction in America / / David T. Courtwright |
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2001 |
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[Enl. ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (270p. ) : ill |
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Opium abuse - United States - History |
Opium - Therapeutic use - History |
Morphine abuse |
Heroin abuse |
Drug addicts - History |
Opium trade - Law and legislation - United States - History |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliography: p225-263. _ Includes index. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-316) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Preface, 2001 -- A Note on Terminology and Spelling -- Introduction -- 1 The Extent of Opiate Addiction -- 2 Addiction to Opium and Morphine -- 3 Addiction to Smoking Opium -- 4 Addiction to Heroin -- 5 The Transformation of the Opiate Addict -- 6 Heroin in Postwar America -- 7 The Drug Wars -- Appendix: Addiction Rate and City Size -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In a newly enlarged edition of this eye-opening book, David T. Courtwright offers an original interpretation of a puzzling chapter in American social and medical history: the dramatic change in the pattern of opiate addiction--from respectable upper-class matrons to lower-class urban males, often with a criminal record. Challenging the prevailing view that the shift resulted from harsh new laws, Courtwright shows that the crucial role was played by the medical rather than the legal profession. Dark Paradise tells the story not only from the standpoint of legal and medical sources, but also from the perspective of addicts themselves. With the addition of a new introduction and two |
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new chapters on heroin addiction and treatment since 1940, Courtwright has updated this compelling work of social history for the present crisis of the Drug War. |
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UNINA9910782494203321 |
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Titolo |
Access to environmental justice [[electronic resource] ] : a comparative study / / edited by Andrew Harding |
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Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2007 |
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1-281-92635-3 |
9786611926359 |
90-474-2045-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Collana |
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London-leiden series on law, administration and development ; ; v. 11 |
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Environmental law |
Environmental justice |
Environmental policy |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Access to environmental justice : some introductory perspectives / Andrew Harding -- Access to environmental justice in Ghana (Accra) / James S. Read -- Access to environmental justice in India's Garden City (Bangalore) / Amanda Perry-Kessaris -- Access to environmental justice in Indonesia / Adriaan Bedner -- Access to environmental justice in Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) / Andrew Harding and Azmi Sharom -- Access to Environmental justice in a politically unstable environment : a case study of Nepal / Surya Subedi -- Access to environmental justice : Karachi's urban poor and the law / Martin Lau --Towards a greener China? : accessing environmental justice in the People's Republic of China / Michael Palmer -- Access to environmental justice in the South West Pacific / Nicola Pain -- Access to environmental justice and public participation in Thailand / Thawilwadee Bureekul -- Access to environmental justice in United Kingdom law / Jean-Jacques |
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Paradissis and Michael Purdue -- Access to environmental justice in the United States : embracing environmental and social concerns to achieve environmental justice / J. Mijin Cha. |
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Although it is commonly asserted that enhanced citizen participation results in better environmental policy and improved enforcement of environmental standards, this hypothesis has rarely been subject to testing on a comparative basis. The contributors to this book set out to study the extent to which citizens can and do exert influence over their urban environments through the legal (and extra-legal) 'gateways' in eleven countries spanning several continents as well as different climates, levels and type of economic development, and national legal and constitutional systems, as well as exhibiting a different set of environmental problems. One interviewee questioned about access to environmental justice, dryly remarked that in his city there was no environment, no justice and no access to either. Yet this view, as will be seen, requires to be nuanced. While few people will be surprised by the finding that legal gateways to environmental justice are largely ineffective, the reasons for this are revealing; but also the richness of detail and the comparisons between the different countries, and also the positive aspects which surfaced in several instances, were indeed both encouraging and sometimes surprising. This book presents the first comparative survey of access to environmental justice, and will be of considerable use to lawyers, policy-makers, activists and scholars who are concerned with the environmental issues which so profoundly affect and afflict our habitat and conditions of social justice throughout the world. |
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