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Author Hirshbein, Laura D., 1967- author.

Title Smoking privileges : psychiatry, the mentally ill, and the tobacco industry in America / Laura D. Hirshbein
Published New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 212 pages)
Series Critical issues in health and medicine
Critical issues in health and medicine.
Contents Introduction: Smoking Privileges -- chapter 1. Ecology of Smoking in Mental Hospitals through the 1970s -- chapter 2. Conflict and Smoking in Mental Hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s -- chapter 3. Smoker Psychology and the Tobacco Industry through the Early 1980s -- chapter 4. Psychiatry Engages Smoking -- chapter 5. The Many Faces of Nicotine --chapter 6. From Tolerance to Treatment -- chapter 7. Tobacco Control and the Mentally Ill -- chapter 8. Double Marginalization -- Conclusion: Corporate Squeeze
Summary "Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century. Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill. A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes"--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-207) and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (ProQuest ebrary platform, viewed June 24, 2016)
SUBJECT Klinik und Hochschulambulanz für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie gnd
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd
Subject Mentally ill -- Tobacco use -- United States -- History
Psychiatric hospital patients -- Tobacco use -- United States -- History
Tobacco industry -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States
Smoking -- Psychological aspects
Attachment behavior.
Mentally ill women.
Smoking -- psychology
Mentally Ill Persons
Object Attachment
Tobacco Industry -- ethics
Tobacco Use Disorder -- psychology
mentally ill.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Internal Medicine.
MEDICAL -- History.
Attachment behavior
Smoking -- Psychological aspects
Tobacco industry -- Moral and ethical aspects
Psychische Störung
Rauchen
Sozialer Wandel
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780813563985
0813563984
9781336199545
1336199547