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The Social Value of Drug Addicts : the Uses of the Useless by Merrill Singer, J. Bryan Page is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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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-- Drugs, Race, And Gender In The Social Construction Of Drug Consumers: Recognizing The Origins Of Othering -- Drug Users Through The Ages: When Did We Decide Addicts Were A Separate Category? -- Representations Of Addicts And The Construction Of Prohibitions -- Imagine That: Drug Users And Literature -- Picture This: Pictorial Construction Of Drug Users In The World Of F
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- Author
- Merrill Singer, J. Bryan Page
- Publisher
- Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611321197
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Anthropology, Sociology, Social Science