LEADER 03517oam 2200685I 450 001 9910809893203321 005 20230126210922.0 010 $a1-315-41715-4 010 $a1-315-41716-2 010 $a1-315-41717-0 010 $a1-61132-119-0 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315417172 035 $a(CKB)2670000000492938 035 $a(EBL)1539077 035 $a(OCoLC)862613247 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001041512 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12407418 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001041512 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11010175 035 $a(PQKB)11060473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1539077 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1539077 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10796085 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL932483 035 $a(OCoLC)869518813 035 $a(OCoLC)954006723 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000492938 100 $a20180706e20162014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe social value of drug addicts $euses of the useless /$fMerrill Singer and J. Bryan Page 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (249 p.) 300 $aFirst published 2014 by Left Coast Press, Inc. 311 $a1-61132-118-2 311 $a1-61132-117-4 320 $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. 606 $aDrug abuse$xSocial aspects 606 $aDrug addicts 606 $aSocial values 615 0$aDrug abuse$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aDrug addicts. 615 0$aSocial values. 676 $a305.9/084 686 $aSOC057000$aSOC002010$aMED078000$2bisacsh 700 $aSinger$b Merrill.$0877463 701 $aPage$b J. Bryan$f1947-$01685201 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809893203321 996 $aThe social value of drug addicts$94069934 997 $aUNINA