A Fine Line: Painkillers and Pleasure in the Age of Anxiety - Hardcover
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9789811319747ISBN-10:981131974XUPC:9789811319747Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Disease & Health Issues, Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.518Product ID:SCTNVNGX7Z
Provides a long overdue full-length critical scholarly work on the subject of pharmaceutical opioid abuse Canvasses historical shifts in Australian drug policy and international literature on non-medical consumption Addresses the discursive construction of painkiller (ab)use as it is articulated in research and policy accounts Provides an original empirical investigation that draws on the lived experience of those who engage in non-medical consumption
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9789811319747ISBN-10:981131974XUPC:9789811319747Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Disease & Health Issues, Sociology, AnthropologyBook Topic:Cultural & SocialSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.75 inchesWeight:0.518Product ID:SCTNVNGX7Z
George (Kev) Dertadian, Ph.D. is a social researcher interested in alcohol and other drugs, the sociology of crime and deviance, and social and cultural theory. Kev has conducted several qualitative projects on the non-medical use of pharmaceuticals at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University and the Kirby Institute for infection and immunity, University of New South Wales, Australia. Kev is currently a Lecturer in Criminology as part of the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
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2019 Edition
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