Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a category of human knowledge and experience. Based on ethnographic research conducted in sites from alcohol treatment clinics in Russia to Pentecostal addiction ministries in Puerto Rico, the essays are linked by the contributors' attention to the dynamics including the cultural, scientific, legal, religious, personal, and social that shape the meaning of "addiction" in particular settings. They examine how it is understood and experienced among...
Bringing anthropological perspectives to bear on addiction, the contributors to this important collection highlight the contingency of addiction as a ...
Critics of narcology as addiction medicine is called in Russia decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions and critiques obscured more than they revealed. Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows...
Critics of narcology as addiction medicine is called in Russia decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practice...
Critics of narcology as addiction medicine is called in Russia decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions and critiques obscured more than they revealed. Governing Habits is an ethnography of extraordinary sensitivity and awareness that shows...
Critics of narcology as addiction medicine is called in Russia decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practice...
