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Author Singer, Merrill, author.

Title The social value of drug addicts : the uses of the useless / Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page
Published Walnut Creek, CA : Left Coast Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (249 pages)
Contents 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 film -- The legal construction of drug users: policy, the courts, incarcerating institutions, police practice, and the war on drugs -- Drug users in social science: the others we've made -- From the making and using of the useless to social integration
Summary 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 advan
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes 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 Film -- The Legal Construction of Drug Users : Policy, the Courts, Incarcerating Institutions, Police Practice, and the War on Drugs -- Drug Users in Social Science : The Others We've Made. Conclusion
Text in English
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Subject Drug addicts.
Social values.
Drug abuse -- Social aspects.
Drug abusers.
Mass media.
Social perception.
Drug Users -- history
Mass Media
Social Perception
Social Values
Communications Media
drug addicts.
mass media.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Social perception
Mass media
Drug abusers
Drug abuse -- Social aspects
Drug addicts
Social values
Drogenmissbrauch
Sozialer Ertrag
Form Electronic book
Author Page, J. Bryan, 1947- author.
LC no. 2013029130
ISBN 9781611321197
1611321190
9781315417172
1315417170
1315417162
9781315417165