Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.
- Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
- Date:
- 2002
- Books
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Publication/Creation
Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Physical description
276 pages ; 24 cm
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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-260) and index.
Contents
Heroin addiction and urban vice reform -- The opportunistic approach -- The technological fix: the search for a nonaddicting analgesic -- Constructing the addict career -- The junkie as psychopath -- Healing vision and bureaucratic reality -- The addict in the social body.
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Location Status History of MedicineFCF.6Open shelves
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- 0801867983