Historique
Éditeur University of California Press
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The essays collected in this volume stem from a conference held at the Claremont Colleges; like most of the presentations at that conference, they argue for connections between our notions of 'addiction' and 'culture' that go far beyond the comm[...]
FRANÇAIS : L'opium est plus qu'une drogue extraite du pavot. Durant les deux siècles passés il a été utilisé comme traitement palliatif, une substance addictive, une marchandise de haute valeur, un mécanisme puissant pour concentrer et transfér[...]
This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack s[...]
ENGLISH : In an era of "zero tolerance" for even casual drug use in the United States, only the threat of AIDS mandated some humane concern for drug injectors, particularly given the risk to their sexual partners and unborn children. However, [...]
