Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins

J. Bryan Page, Merrill Singer - Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins
Published: 2010-10-26 | ISBN: 0813548047, 0813548039 | PDF | 256 pages | 3 MB

Comprehending Drug Use, the leading full-length critical overview of the employment of ethnographic methods in drug inquiry, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study forward the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer produce a comprehensive examination of the integral field of drug ethnography-methodology that involves interview to the hidden world of mix with ~s users, the social spaces they every-day, and the larger structural forces that lend aid construct their worlds. They explore the of influence intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, general health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, hepatitis, and other diseases), and form relative to sex, and also provide a practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers.