Titre : | Drugs-as-a-disease: heroin, metaphors and identity in Nixon's drug war |
Titre traduit : | (La drogue comme maladie : héroïne, métaphores et identité dans la guerre à la drogues de Nixon) |
Auteurs : | WEIMER D. |
Type de document : | Périodique |
Année de publication : | 2003 |
Format : | 260-281 |
Note générale : |
Janus Head, 2003, 6, (2), 260-281 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Discipline : | SHS (Sciences humaines et sociales / Humanities and social sciences) |
Mots-clés : |
Thésaurus mots-clés POLITIQUE ; CONSOMMATION ; HEROINE ; ARMEE ; THEORIE ; HISTOIRE ; PHILOSOPHIEThésaurus géographique ETATS-UNIS |
Résumé : |
ENGLISH : This essay examines President Nixon's drug policy during the early 1970s, specifically the government's reaction to heroin use by American soldiers in Vietnam. The officcial response, discursively (through the employment of the drugs-as-a-disease metaphor) and on the policy level, illustrated how issues of national and self-identity, othering, and modernity intersected in the formulation and implementation of what is now termed the Drug War. Heroin using soldiers and domestic addicts, labeled as carriers of a contagious, foreign, and dangerous, antimodern disease, threatened to undermine a contingent national identity, an identity weighted by capitalist modernity. Unearthing how addiction's ostensibly antimodern condition contributed to the othering of addicts as a foreign danger reveals how the United States' antidrug character and policies help maintain a national identity bound to the tenets of capitalist modernity. Methodologically this essay combines historical analysis with literary and critical theory. (Author's abstract.) |
Domaine : | Drogues illicites / Illicit drugs |
Refs biblio. : | 40 |
Affiliation : |
Northwest Vista Coll., Dept History, 3535 N.Ellison Drive, San Antonio, TX 78251-4217 Etats-Unis. United States. |
Numéro Toxibase : | 505903 |
Centre Emetteur : | 05 Marmottan |
Lien : | http://www.janushead.org/6-2/Weimer.pdf |
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