Governing Habits: Treating Alcoholism in the Post-Soviet Clinic

by Eugene Raikhel

Book Overview

Critics of narcology--as addiction medicine is called in Russia--decry it as being "backward," hopelessly behind contemporary global medical practices in relation to addiction and substance abuse, and assume that its practitioners lack both professionalism and expertise. On the basis of his research in a range of clinical institutions managing substance abuse in St. Petersburg, Eugene Raikhel increasingly came to understand that these assumptions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501703137
• ISBN13: 9781501703133
• Release Date: October 2016
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher