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Addiction trajectories / Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Experimental futures.
- Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Substance abuse--Research.
- Substance abuse.
- Addicts--Rehabilitation.
- Addicts.
- Substance abuse--Treatment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (347 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham and London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies,the contributors to Addiction Trajectories examine the epistemic, therapeutic, and experiential dimensions of contemporary addiction.
- Contents:
- Addiction trajectories: tracing new paths in the anthropology of addiction / Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott
- The elegiac addict / Angela Garcia
- Balancing acts: gambling-machine addiction and the double bind of therapeutics / Natasha Dow Schull
- A few ways to become unreasonable: pharmacotherapy inside and outside the clinic / Todd Meyers
- Pharmaceutical evangelism and spiritual capital: an american tale of two communities of addicted selves / Helena Hansen
- Elusive travelers: Russian narcology, transnational toxicomanias and the great French ecological experiment / Anne M. Lovell
- Motivating denial: the shifting semiotics of American addiction counseling / E. Summerson Carr
- Placebos or prostheses for the will: trajectories of alcoholism treatment in Russia / Eugene Raikhel
- "You can always tell who's using meth:" methamphetamine addiction and the semiotics of criminal difference / William Garriott
- "Why can't they stop?" a highly public misunderstanding of science / Nancy Campbell
- Committed to will: what's at stake for anthropology in addiction / A. Jamie Saris
- Afterword following "addiction trajectories" / Emily Martin.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-9587-8
- 0-8223-5350-4
- OCLC:
- 840897778
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