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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philippe bourgois”
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  • In Search of Respect

    Selling Crack in El Barrio

    by Philippe Bourgois ...
    Series Book 10 - Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences
    In Search of Respect, Philippe Bourgois's now-classic, ethnographic study of social marginalization in inner-city America, won critical acclaim after it was first published in 1995 and in 1997 was awarded the Margaret Mead Award. For the first time, an anthropologist had managed to gain the trust and long-term friendship of street-level drug dealers in one of the roughest ghetto neighborhoods in ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Unhealthy Health Policy

    A Critical Anthropological Examination

    by Cesar E. Abadia-Barrero, Francisco Armada, Hans A. Baer, Katherine Elaine Bliss, Philippe Bourgois, David Buchanan, Claudia Chaufan, Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, Alice Desclaux, Paul Farmer, Didier Fassin, Sarah Horton, Kristen M. Jacklin, Salmaan Keshavjee, Kaveh Khoshnoo, Cathy Hodge McCoid, Carles Muntaner, Joan E. Paluzzi, James Pfeiffer, Imrana Qadeer, Susan Shaw, Tom Stopka, Wei Teng, Graham A. Tobin, Fouzieyha Towghi, Nalini Visvanathan, William Wagner, Howard Waitzkin, Wayne Warry, Linda M. Whiteford, Cathleen Willging ...
    This new collection turns a critical anthropological eye on the nature of health policy internationally. The authors reveal that in light of prevailing social inequalities, health policies may intend to protect public health, but in fact they often represent significant structural threats to the health and well being of the poor, ethnic minorities, women, and other subordinate groups. The volume ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems

    by Patricia A. Adler, Peter Adler, Richard Aniskiewicz, Jerald G. Backman, Grace M. Barnes, Kellie E.M. Barr, Katherine Beckett, Philippe Bourgois, Michael P. Farrell, Charles E. Faupel, Joseph R. Gusfield, Denise Herd, Glenda Kaufman Kantor, Carl B. Klockars, Mark Lettiere, James Quesada, Timothy P. Rouse, Joseph W. Schneider, Murray A. Straus, J Blake Turner, Prabha N. Unnithan, John M. Wallace Jr., D Lawrence Weider, John W. Welte, David Wright, Earl Wysong, Don H. Zimmerman ...
    Series series Understanding Social Problems: An SSSP Presidential Series
    Drugs, Alcohol, and Social Problems, a collection edited James D. Orcutt and David R. Rudy, includes 14 clearly written articles that exemplify the best of sociological scholarship on drug and alcohol problems. The readings strike a balance between constructionist, epidemiological, and ethnographic approaches to the study of drinking, drug use, and related problems such as domestic violence, crime ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Violence at the Urban Margins

    Edited by Javier Auyero, Philippe Bourgois, Nancy Scheper-Hughes ...
    Series series Global and Comparative Ethnography
    In the Americas, debates around issues of citizen's public safety--from debates that erupt after highly publicized events, such as the shootings of Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin, to those that recurrently dominate the airwaves in Latin America--are dominated by members of the middle and upper-middle classes. However, a cursory count of the victims of urban violence in the Americas reveals that ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Righteous Dopefiend

    by Philippe Bourgois, Jeffrey Schonberg ...
    Series Book 21 - California Series in Public Anthropology
    This powerful work of gonzo journalism, predating the widespread acknowledgement of the opioid epidemic as such, immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug and alcohol abuse in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers in the San Francisco drug scene, accompanying ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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    How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

    by Roy Richard Grinker ...
    A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Bipolar Expeditions

    Mania and Depression in American Culture

    by Emily Martin ...
    Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today. It fuels the plots of best-selling novels and the imagery of MTV videos, is acknowledged as the driving force for successful entrepreneurs like Ted Turner, and is celebrated as the source of the creativity of artists like Vincent Van Gogh and movie stars like Robin Williams. Bipolar Expeditions seeks to understand mania's ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • American Therapy

    The Rise of Psychotherapy in the United States

    by Jonathan Engel ...
    From Freud to Zoloft, the first comprehensive history of American PsychotherapyFifty percent of Americans will undergo some form of psychotherapy in their lifetimes, but the origins of the field are rarely known to patients. Yet the story of psychotherapy in America brims with colorful characters, intriguing experimental treatments, and intense debates within this community of healers.American ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Understanding Animal Abuse: A Sociological Analysis

    by Clif Flynn ...
    Until the last decade of the twentieth century, the abusive or cruel treatment of animals had received virtually no attention among academicians. Since then, however, empirical studies of animal abuse, and its relation to other forms of violence toward humans, have increased not only in number but in quality and stature. Sociologists, criminologists, social workers, psychologists, legal scholars, ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Why I Burned My Book

    by Paul Longmore ...
    Series series American Subjects
    This wide-ranging book shows why Paul Longmore is one of the most respected figures in disability studies today. Understanding disability as a major variety of human experience, he urges us to establish it as a category of social, political, and historical analysis in much the same way that race, gender, and class already have been. The essays here search for the often hidden pattern of systemic ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

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    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

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  • War on Autism

    On the Cultural Logic of Normative Violence

    by Anne McGuire ...
    Series series Corporealities: Discourses Of Disability
    War on Autism examines autism as a historically specific and powerladen cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity. Bringing together a variety of interpretive theoretical perspectives including critical disability studies, queer and critical race theory, and cultural studies, the book analyzes the social significance and productive ... Read more

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