基本説明
The first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs.
Full Description
Comprehending Drug Use, the first full-length critical overview of the use of ethnographic methods in drug research, synthesizes more than one hundred years of study on the human encounter with psychotropic drugs. J. Bryan Page and Merrill Singer create a comprehensive examination of the whole field of drug ethnography-methodology that involves access to the hidden world of drug users, the social spaces they frequent, and the larger structural forces that help construct their worlds. They explore the important intersections of drug ethnography with globalization, criminalization, public health (including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, hepatitis, and other diseases), and gender, and also provide a practical guide of the methods and career paths of ethnographers.
Contents
Through ethnographic eyes
The emergence of drug ethnography
Systematic modernist ethnography and ethnopharmacology
Drug ethnography since the emergence of AIDS
Drugs and globalization: from the ground up and the sky down
The conduct of drug ethnography: risks, rewards, and ethical quandaries in drug research careers
Career paths in drug-related ethnography: from falling to calling
Gender and drug use: drug ethnography by women about women
The future of drug ethnography as reflected in recent developments
