Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / / Caroline Jean Acker
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| Autore: |
Acker Caroline Jean <1947->
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| Titolo: |
Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / / Caroline Jean Acker
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| Pubblicazione: | Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (287 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.29/3/0973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Heroin abuse - Social aspects - United States |
| Heroin abuse - Research - United States | |
| Drug addiction - Research - United States | |
| Drug addicts - Research - United States | |
| Drug addicts - Government policy - United States | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Heroin addiction and urban vice reform -- The opportunistic approach -- The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic -- Constructing the addict career -- The junkie as psychopath -- Healing vision and bureaucratic reality -- The addict in the social body. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Creating the American junkie |
| ISBN: | 0-8018-7453-X |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809436403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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