Drugs and Culture

Knowledge, Consumption and Policy

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Geoffrey Hunt

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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 phenomena as we do; and the factors that determine the political and policy responses to drug use. Adopting approaches from anthropology, sociology, history, political science and geopolitics to challenge the prevailing pathologization and criminalization of drug use, this book provides international and comparative perspectives on drug research, based on the latest research in Europe, the USA, the Middle East and Hong Kong.

Author Biography:

Geoffrey Hunt is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute for Scientific Analysis, USA Maitena Milhet is a researcher at the French Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction (OFDT) Henri Bergeron is Research Fellow and Scientific Coordinator of the Chair in Health Studies at Sciences Po, Paris and Research Fellow (Permanent post - First Class) at the Centre de Sociologie des Organisations (CSO), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Maitena Milhet, Molly Moloney, Henri Bergeron, Geoffrey Hunt, Ross Coomber, Tom Decorte, Patrick Peretti-Watel, Peter Conrad, Thomas Mackie, Didier Fassin, Michel Kokoreff, Randall Collins, Karen Joe-Laidler, Agnes van der Poel, Dike van de Mheen, Catherine Reynaud-Maurupt, Frank Zobel, Wolfgang Gotz, David T. Courtwright, Timothy A. Hickman, Peter Reuter, Philippe Bourgois, Nacer Lalam, Laurent Laniel.

Release date NZ

May 9th, 2011

Author

Geoffrey Hunt

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Maitena Milhet

Pages

324

Dimensions

156x234x19

ISBN-13

9781409405436

Product ID

10357441

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