The Medicalization of Marijuana: Legitimacy, Stigma, and the Patient Experience

by Michelle Newhart and William Dolphin

Book Overview

Winner of the Donald W. Light Award for the Applied or Public Practice of Medical Sociology

Medical marijuana laws have spread across the U.S. to all but a handful of states. Yet, eighty years of social stigma and federal prohibition creates dilemmas for patients who participate in state programs.

The Medicalization of Marijuana

takes the first comprehensive look at how patients negotiate incomplete medicalization...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138320889
• ISBN13: 9781138320888
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"