Comprehending Drug Use : : Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins /

Comprehending Drug Use : : Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins / / Merrill Singer, J. Bryan Page.

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Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a comprehensive examination of the whole field...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Page, J. Bryan,
Singer, Merrill,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medical Anthropology
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Physical Description:1 online resource (256 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Through Ethnographic Eyes
  • 2. The Emergence of Drug Ethnography
  • 3. Systematic Modernist Ethnography and Ethnopharmacology
  • 4. Drug Ethnography since the Emergence of AIDS
  • 5. Drugs and Globalization: From the Ground Up and the Sky Down
  • 6. The Conduct of Drug Ethnography: Risks, Rewards, and Ethical Quandaries in Drug Research Careers
  • 7. Career Paths in Drug-related Ethnography: From Falling to Calling
  • 8. Gender and Drug Use: Drug Ethnography by Women about Women
  • 9. The Future of Drug Ethnography as Reflected in Recent Developments
  • Appendix: Nuts and Bolts of Ethnographic Methods
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Authors

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