The Social Value of Drug Addicts

"In The Social Value of Drug Addicts: Uses of the Useless, Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page provide a sweeping analysis of popular representations of drug use and drug users in U.S. culture...In making such an offering, Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page continue to cement their legacy as scholars who have tried to talk sense to us about our society's most harmful habits of social distinction." Jennifer J. Carroll, American Anthropologist

Autorentext
Merrill Singer, J Bryan Page

Klappentext
In a wide-ranging analysis covering popular culture, policy, and underlying social structures, this book shows how drug addicts are socially constructed as useless burdens on society and who benefits from that portrayal.

Inhalt
Introduction; Chapter One Drugs, Race, and Gender in the Social Construction of Drug Consumers; Chapter Two Drug Users through the Ages; Chapter Three Representations of Addicts and the Construction of Prohibitions; Chapter Four Imagine That: Drug Users and Literature; Chapter Five Picture This; Chapter Six The Legal Construction of Drug Users; Chapter Seven Drug Users in Social Science; Conclusion;

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