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200 14$aThe social value of drug addicts $euses of the useless /$fMerrill Singer and J. Bryan Page
205   $a1st ed.
210  1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016.
215   $a1 online resource (249 p.)
300   $aFirst published 2014 by Left Coast Press, Inc.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aConte nts; Introduction; 1. Drugs, Race, and Gender in the Social Construction of Drug Consumers: Recognizing the Origins of Othering; 2. Drug Users through the Ages: When Did We Decide Addicts Were a Separate Category?; 3. Representations of Addicts and the Construction of Prohibitions; 4. Imagine That: Drug Users and Literature; 5. Picture This: Pictorial Construction of Drug Users in the World of Film; 6. The Legal Construction of Drug Users: Policy, the Courts, Incarcerating Institutions, Police Practice, and the War on Drugs; 7. Drug Users in Social Science: The Others We've Made
327   $aConclusion: From the Making and Using of the Useless to Social IntegrationReferences; Index; About the Authors
330   $a"Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless--culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalization, demonization, and even popular glamorization of addicts. Synthesizing a broad range of key literature and advancing innovative arguments about the social construction of drug users and their role in contemporary society, this book is an important contribution to public health, medical anthropology, popular culture, and related fields"--$cProvided by publisher.
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606   $aDrug addicts
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