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Languages : en
Pages : 816
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Schmidt's Jahrbuecher
Author: A System of Medicine
Author: Thomas Clifford AllbuttPublisher:
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Category : Clinical medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1214
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The Opium Problem
Author: Charles E. TerryPublisher:
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Category : Opium
Languages : en
Pages : 1080
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Abnormal Man
Author: Arthur MacDonaldPublisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Abnormal Man, Being Essays on Education and Crime and Related Subjects
Author: Arthur MacDonaldPublisher:
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Category : Criminal anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences
Author: Charles Eucharist de Medicis SajousPublisher:
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Addiction and Opiates
Author: Alfred R. LindesmithPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351534009
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
This classic study is concerned with addiction to opiate-type drugs and their synthetic equivalents. Lindesmith proposes and systematically elaborates a rational, general theoretical account of the nature of the experiences which generate the addict's characteristic craving for drugs. While this theoretical position has obvious implications for addictions that resemble opiate addiction in that they also involve drugs which produce physical dependence and withdrawal distress, the author does not extend the theory to these other forms of addiction, such as alcoholism.The central theoretical problem is posed by the fact that some persons who experience the effects of opiate-type drugs and use them for a period sufficient to establish physical dependence do not become addicts, while others under what appear to be the same conditions do become addicted. The focus of theoretical attention is on those aspects of addiction which may reasonably he regarded as basic or essential in the sense that they are invariably manifested by all types of addicts regardless of place, time, method of use, social class, and other similar variable circumstances. Lindesmith then makes a brief statement of a view of current public policy concerning addiction in the United States reform which, it is believed, would substantially reduce the evils now associated with addiction and the large illicit traffic in drugs. He interviews approximately fifty addicts over a fairly extended period of time sufficient to establish an informal, friendly relationship of mutual trust.The attempt to account for the differential reactions among drug users requires specification of the circumstances under which physical dependence results in addiction and in the absence of which it does not. It also requires careful consideration of the meaning of "addiction," spelled out in terms of behavior and attitudes characteristic of opiate addicts everywhere. This book strives to understand these aspects of addiction with t
Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences and Analytical Index
Author: Gendered Drugs and Medicine
Author: Teresa Ortiz-GómezPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317129822
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
Drugs are considered to be healers and harmers, wonder substances and knowledge makers; objects that impact on social hierarchies, health practices and public policies. As a collective endeavour, this book focuses on the ways that gender, along with race/ethnicity and class, influence the design, standardisation and circulation of drugs throughout several highly medicalised countries throughout the twentieth century and until the twenty-first. Fourteen authors from different European and non-European countries analyse the extent to which the dominant ideas and values surrounding masculinity and femininity have contributed to shape the research, prescription and use of drugs by women and men within particular social and cultural contexts. New and lesser-known, gender-specific issues in lifestyles and social practices associated with pharmaceutical technologies are analysed, as is the manner in which they intervene in life experiences such as reproduction, sexual desire, childbirth, depression and happiness. The processes of prescribing, selling, marketing and accepting or forbidding drugs is also examined, as is the contribution of gendered medical practices to the medicalisation and growing consumption of drugs by women. Gender relations and other hierarchies are involved as both causes and consequences of drug cultures, and of the history and social life of gender in contemporary drug production, use and consumption. A network of agents emerges from this book’s research, contributing to a better understanding of both gender and drugs within our society.
Author: Hugo Martin Krueger