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Comprehending Drug
Use
Price: $25.95
Subtitle: Ethnographic Research at
the Social Margins
Authors:
J. Bryan Page and
Merrill Singer
Subject: Anthropology,
Criminology,
Sociology
Paper ISBN: 978-0-8135-4804-3
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4803-6
Pages:
234 pages
Publication Date: October 2010
Series: Studies
in Medical Anthropology
Praise for Comprehending Drug Use:
"Productive and imaginative anthropologists Page and Singer provide a succinct history of the century-long, rapidly expanding field of drug studies. Clear, well written, and neatly organized, this book fills a gap in the literatures of both drug studies and anthropology. Highly recommended."
—Choice
"For anyone wanting to obtain a better
sense of the range and diversity of historical and contemporary
ethnographic research on drugs, this fine book will clearly be the one
to consult."
—Geoffrey
Hunt, Institute for Scientific Analysis
Description:
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 of
drug ethnography—methodology that involves access to the hidden world
of drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger
structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore
the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization,
criminalization, public health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic,
hepatitis, and other diseases), and gender, and also provide a
practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers.
About the Author:
J. BRYAN PAGE is
a professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Miami. He is
a leading ethnographer studying the use of particular drugs in
different cultures. The author of dozens of articles in major journals,
he has also contributed many book chapters in the fields of medicine
and anthropology, especially drug research.
MERRILL SINGER is a professor in the department of anthropology
and a senior research scientist at the Center for Health, Intervention,
and Prevention at the University of Connecticut. He is also affiliated
with the Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at Yale
University and the Global Center on Health in Central Asia at Columbia
University. Having authored or edited more than twenty books and two
hundred articles and book chapters, he is also the recipient of
several distinguished awards.
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