Drugs and Culture: Knowledge, Consumption and Policy Tapa blanda - 2016

Paperback / softback. New. 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 difficult to describe drug consumption in any terms other than those of medicine, or to conceive of regulation except in terms of control and eradication. Drugs and Culture presents other voices and understandings of drug issues, highlighting the socio-cultural features of drug use and regulation in modern societies. It examines the cultural dimensions of drugs and their regulation, with special attention to questions of how consumption of specific psychoactive substances becomes associated with particular social groups; the social dynamics involved in our coming to think of these… Leer más

Taylor & Francis, 2016. Paperback. New. 324 pages. 9.21x6.14x0.87 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.