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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Alisse WaterstonPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S. Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S. Dimensions: Width: 12.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.354kg ISBN: 9781566395748ISBN 10: 1566395747 Pages: 280 Publication Date: 22 April 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments 1. Toward a Political Economy of Drugs 2. Homelessness and City Shelters 3. Making a living 4. Crime and Punishment 5. Medical Solutions 6. Lovers and Other Strangers 7. Drugs Culture and Society Appendix Notes References IndexReviewsA landmark book ... the texture and topography of the addicts' daily existence have never been presented in such detail and vividness... --Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless Alisse Waterston's study ... breaks new ground in drug studies. --Contemporary Drug Studies Alisse Waterston has written a timely, sensitive, and compelling book about a people whose lives are all too easily dismissed by conservatives and liberals alike. --Medical Anthropological Quarterly This sorely needed viewpoint in the social study of addiction has never been tackled with the comprehensiveness and theoretical sophistication that Waterston brings. Nor has there ever been a greater need to have these viewpoints of research examined. --Anthropological Quarterly This sorely needed viewpoint in the social study of addiction has never been tackled with the comprehensiveness and theoretical sophistication that Waterston brings. Nor has there ever been a greater need to have these viewpoints of research examined. --Anthropological Quarterly Alisse Waterston has written a timely, sensitive, and compelling book about a people whose lives are all too easily dismissed by conservatives and liberals alike. --Medical Anthropological Quarterly Alisse Waterston's study.breaks new ground in drug studies. --Contemporary Drug Studies (A) landmark book...the texture and topography of the addicts' daily existence have never been presented in such detail and vividness... --Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless Alisse Waterston's book is an important work in the area of neo-Marxist theory, particularly that brand of theory that has been so provocatively developed in Europe. Her work is innovative because it breaks new ground in the substantive area chosen for analysis. Waterston is the first to try to fit all the socio-economic pieces together. Given her task and the fact that she is at the frontier, I think she's done a very impressive job. --Eleanor Miller, Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Author InformationAlisse Waterston is Research Associate at the HIV Center for Clinical and Behavioral Studies at Columbia University. She is currently Visiting Associate Professor in the Graduate Faculty in Sociology at the New School for Social Research. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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