TY  - BOOK
AU  - Singer,Merrill
AU  - Page,J.Bryan
TI  - The social value of drug addicts: the uses of the useless 
SN  - 9781611321197
AV  - HV5801 .S48 2014eb
U1  - 305.9/084 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Walnut Creek, CA
PB  - Left Coast Press
KW  - Drug addicts
KW  - Social values
KW  - Drug abuse
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Drug abusers
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Social perception
KW  - Drug Users
KW  - history
KW  - Mass Media
KW  - Social Perception
KW  - Social Values
KW  - Communications Media
KW  - Toxicomanes
KW  - Valeurs sociales
KW  - Toxicomanie
KW  - Aspect social
KW  - Médias
KW  - Perception sociale
KW  - drug addicts
KW  - aat
KW  - mass media
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Drogenmissbrauch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Sozialer Ertrag
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Drugs, race, and gender in the social construction of drug consumers : Recognizing the origins of othering -- Drug Users through the Ages : When Did we decide Addicts were a Separate Category? -- Representations of Addicts and the Construction of Prohibitions -- Imagine that: Drug Users and Literature -- Picture This : Pictorial Construction of Drug Users in the World of Film -- The Legal Construction of Drug Users : Policy, the Courts, Incarcerating Institutions, Police Practice, and the War on Drugs -- Drug Users in Social Science : The Others We've Made. Conclusion; Includes bibliographical references and index; Drugs, race, and gender in the social construction of drug consumers: recognizing the origins of othering --; Drug users through the ages: when did we decide addicts were a separate category? --; Representations of addicts and the construction of prohibitions --; Imagine that: drug users and literature --; Picture this: pictorial construction of drug users in the world of film --; The legal construction of drug users: policy, the courts, incarcerating institutions, police practice, and the war on drugs --; Drug users in social science: the others we've made --; From the making and using of the useless to social integration
N2  - Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain useless-culturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, this book argues that the social construction of some people as useless is in fact extremely useful to other people. Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyze media representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalization, demonization, and even popular glamorization of addicts. Synthesizing a broad range of key literature and advan
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