Governing habits : treating alcoholism in the post-Soviet clinic / Eugene Raikhel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Raikhel, Eugene A., 1975- author.

, NEH CARES grant, Author.

Contributor:

NEH CARES grant, funder.

Series:

Expertise (Ithaca, N.Y.)

Expertise : Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alcoholics--Institutional care--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Alcoholics.

Alcoholism--Treatment--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Alcoholism.

Alcoholism--Hospitals--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Post-communism--Health aspects--Russia (Federation)--Saint Petersburg.

Post-communism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, [New York] ; London, [England] : Cornell University Press, 2016.

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Eugene Raikhel is Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He is coeditor of Addiction Trajectories as well as founder and editor of Somatosphere, an online forum for medical anthropology.

Summary:

Critics of narcology-as addiction medicine is called in Russia-decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions and critiques obscured more than they revealed. Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows how therapeutic practice and expertise is expressed in the highly specific, yet rapidly transforming milieu of hospitals, clinics, and rehabilitation centers in post-Soviet Russia. Rather than interpreting narcology as a Soviet survival or a local clinical world on the wane in the face of globalizing evidence-based medicine, Raikhel examines the transformation of the medical management of alcoholism in Russia over the past twenty years.Raikhel's book is more than a story about the treatment of alcoholism. It is also a gripping analysis of the many cultural, institutional, political, and social transformations taking place in the post-Soviet world, particularly in Putin's Russia. Governing Habits will appeal to a wide range of readers, from medical anthropologists, clinicians, to scholars of post-Soviet Russia, to students of institutions and organizational change, to those interested in therapies and treatments of substance abuse, addiction, and alcoholism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. States of Crisis

2. Assembling Narcology

3. Selling Sobriety

4. Prostheses for the Will

5. Rehabilitation from Abroad

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781501707056

1501707051

9781501707063

150170706X

OCLC:

965905763