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Glenn, Jason Edwin.

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Medicalizing addictions, criminalizing addicts: Race, politics and profit in narratives of addiction.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Medicalizing addictions, criminalizing addicts: Race, politics and profit in narratives of addiction./
Author:	Glenn, Jason Edwin.
Description:	413 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4162.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194408
ISBN:	9780542391774

Medicalizing addictions, criminalizing addicts: Race, politics and profit in narratives of addiction.
Glenn, Jason Edwin.

Medicalizing addictions, criminalizing addicts: Race, politics and profit in narratives of addiction. - 413 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4162.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2005.

The focus of this dissertation is a historical investigation of the interactions, convergences, but especially the tensions and disjunctions that mark the political and medical histories of addiction theory and policy throughout the period of the War on Drugs, as begun in the Nixon presidency through the beginning of the first Bush administration. This project aims to give other scholars working toward drug policy reform an additional tool in their efforts: a historical perspective that illuminates the culture-systemic reasons why drug abuse remains such a symbolically charged, as well as an economically and politically lucrative issue. It argues that, if drug use is the systemic consumptive response to the metaphysical ills of the citizens of the United States, then a punitive drug policy has functioned as the answering mechanism by which lower class, inner city drug users are sacrificed in a ritual of justice and retribution that functions to create identity-affirming cohesion for the rest of American society.

ISBN: 9780542391774Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

Medicalizing addictions, criminalizing addicts: Race, politics and profit in narratives of addiction.
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