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  • Drugs and Culture

    Knowledge, Consumption and Policy

    by Geoffrey Hunt ...
    Current approaches to drugs tend to be determined by medical and criminal visions that emerged over a century ago; the concepts of addiction, on the one hand, and drug control on the other, having imposed themselves as the unquestionable central notions surrounding drug issues and discourses. Pathologization and criminalization are the dominant perspectives on psychoactive drugs, and it is ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Outsiders

    by Howard S. Becker ...
    One of the most groundbreaking sociology texts of the mid-20th century, Howard S. Becker’s Outsiders is a thorough exploration of social deviance and how it can be addressed in an understanding and helpful manner.A compulsively readable and thoroughly researched exploration of social deviance and the application of what is known as "labeling theory" to the studies of deviance. With particular ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Globalization of Addiction

    A Study in Poverty of the Spirit

    by Bruce K. Alexander ...
    'The Globalization of Addiction' presents a radical rethink about the nature of addiction. Scientific medicine has failed when it comes to addiction. There are no reliable methods to cure it, prevent it, or take the pain out of it. There is no durable consensus on what addiction is, what causes it, or what should be done about it. Meanwhile, it continues to increase around the world. This book ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Psychiatry Disrupted

    Theorizing Resistance and Crafting the (R)evolution

    by Bonnie Burstow, Brenda A. LeFrançois, Shaindl Diamond ...
    There is growing international resistance to the oppressiveness of psychiatry. While previous studies have critiqued psychiatry, Psychiatry Disrupted goes beyond theorizing what is wrong with it to theorizing how we might stop it.Introducing readers to the arguments and rationale for opposing psychiatry, the book combines perspectives from anti-psychiatry and critical psychiatry activism, mad ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • addicted.pregnant.poor

    by Kelly Ray Knight ...
    Series series Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography
    For the addicted, pregnant, and poor women living in daily-rent hotels in San Francisco's Mission district, life is marked by battles against drug cravings, housing debt, and potential violence. In this stunning ethnography Kelly Ray Knight presents these women in all their complex humanity and asks what kinds of futures are possible for them given their seemingly hopeless situation. During her ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • More Harm Than Good

    Drug Policy in Canada

    by Susan C. Boyd, Connie I. Carter, Donald MacPherson ...
    In More Harm Than Good, Carter, Boyd and MacPherson take a critical look at the current state of Canadian drug policy and raise key questions about the effects of Canada’s increasing involvement in and commitment to the “war on drugs.” A primer on Canadian drug policy, the analysis in More Harm Than Good is shaped by critical sociology and feminist perspectives on drugs and incorporates insights ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Politics of Fear

    Médecins sans Frontières and the West African Ebola Epidemic

    Edited by Michiel Hofman, Sokhieng Au ...
    The 2014-2015 Ebola epidemic in West Africa was an unprecedented medical and political emergency that cast an unflattering light on multiple corners of government and international response. Fear, not rational planning, appeared to drive many decisions made at population and leadership levels, which in turn brought about a response that was as uneven as it was unprecedented: entire populations ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Real Dope

    Social, Legal, and Historical Perspectives on the Regulation of Drugs in Canada

    Edited by Ed Montigny ...
    Recent debate around the potential decriminalization of marijuana, along with a growing perception that illicit drug use is on the rise, has brought the role of the state in controlling intoxication to the forefront of public discussion. Until now, however, there has been little scholarly consideration of the legal and social regulation of drug use in Canada. In The Real Dope, Edgar-Andre Montigny ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Tranquil Prisons

    Chemical Incarceration under Community Treatment Orders

    by Erick Fabris ...
    Antipsychotic medications are sometimes imposed on psychiatric patients deemed dangerous to themselves and others. This is based on the assumption that treatment is safe and effective, and that recovery depends on biological adjustment. Under new laws, patients can be required to remain on these medications after leaving hospitals. However, survivors attest that forced treatment used as a ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Republic of Therapy

    Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa’s Time of AIDS

    by Vinh-Kim Nguyen, Arjun Appadurai, Jean L. Comaroff, Judith Farquhar ...
    Series series Body, Commodity, Text
    The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • It's Not That Simple: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Today

    by Jean Echlin, Ian Gentles ...
    It's Not That Simple: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide presents the reader with the knowledge and understanding of physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia and how it will greatly impact our society. ... Read more

    $10.24 USD

  • Chasing Dragons

    Security, Identity, and Illicit Drugs in Canada

    by Kyle Grayson ...
    Chasing Dragons reconsiders the meaning of security. Additionally, it discusses avenues for resisting the insecurity produced by liberal states in the post-9/11 world. This critical approach reveals the pervasiveness of power in contemporary Canadian society, how this power is hidden, and the consequences for progressive social politics.Canada has received significant attention of late for ... Read more

    $34.59 USD