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Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens
on society, and just plain uselessOCoculturally, 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."
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.
Comprehending Drug Use , the first full-length critical overview of
the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more
than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with
psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a
comprehensive examination of the whole field of drug
ethnography-methodology that involves access to the hidden world of
drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger
structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore
the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization,
criminalization, public health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
hepatitis, and other diseases), and gender, and also provide a
practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers.
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