Smoking Privileges : : Psychiatry, the Mentally Ill, and the Tobacco Industry in America / / Laura D. Hirshbein.

Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceut...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
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Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Author