Comprehending Drug Use: Ethnographic Research at the Social Margins

by J. Bryan Page, Merrill Singer, Professor Merrill Singer, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813548047
• ISBN13: 9780813548043
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"