Drugs and culture : knowledge, consumption, and policy / edited by Geoffrey Hunt, Maitena Milhet, Henri Bergeron.

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9781409405443
1409405443
1409405435
9781409405436
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9781317147732
1317147723
9781317147725
1283047632
9781283047630
9786613047632
6613047635

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Drugs and culture.DDC classification:

306/.1 22

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HV5801 .H794 2011eb

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pt. 1. Knowledge : science, medicine, and discourses on drugs -- pt. 2. Consumption : cultures of drug use -- pt. 3. Policy or politics? The cultural dynamics of public responses.

Summary: Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

pt. 1. Knowledge : science, medicine, and discourses on drugs -- pt. 2. Consumption : cultures of drug use -- pt. 3. Policy or politics? The cultural dynamics of public responses.

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Drugs and Culture presents alternative perspectives on psychoactive drugs, 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.

English.

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