Raikhel / Garriott Addiction Trajectories

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9587-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices

Drawing on medical anthropology and science and technology studies,the contributors to Addiction Trajectories examine the epistemic, therapeutic, and experiential dimensions of contemporary addiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Raikhel, Eugene

Garriott, William

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction. Tracing New Paths in the Anthropology of Addiction / Eugene Raikhel and William Garriott 1

1. The Elegiac Addict / Angela Garcia 36

2. Balancing Acts: Gambling-Machine Addiction and the Double Bind of Therapeutics / Natasha Dow Schüll 61

3. A Few Ways to Become Unreasonable: Pharmacotherapy Inside and Outside the Clinic / Todd Meyers 88

4. Pharmaceutical Evangelism and Spiritual Capital: An American Tale of Two Communities of Addicted Selves / Helena Hansen 108

5. Elusive Travelers: Russian Narcology, Transnational Toxicomanias, and the Great French Ecological Experiment / Anne M. Lovell 126

6. Signs of Sobriety: Rescripting American Addiction Counseling / E. Summerson Carr 160

7. Placebos or Prostheses for the Will: Trajectories of Alcoholism Treatment in Russia / Eugene Raikhel 188

8. "You Can Always Tell Who's Using Meth": Methamphetamine Addiction and the Semiotics of Criminal Difference / William Garriott 213

9. "Why Can't They Stop?" A Highly Public Misunderstanding of Science / Nancy D. Campbell 238

10. Committed to Will: What's at Stake for Anthropology in Addiction / A. Jamie Saris 263

Afterword. Following "Addiction Trajectories" / Emily Martin 284

References 293

Contributors 327

Index 329

Über Autor(innen)

Eugene Raikhel is Assistant Professor of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago.William Garriott is Assistant Professor of Justice Studies at James Madison University. He is the author of Policing Methamphetamine: Narcopolitics in Rural America.