The Social Value of Drug Addicts
Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain uselessâculturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, The Social Value of Drug Addicts argues that the social construction of some people as useless is, in fact, extremely useful to other people.
Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyse media representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalisation, demonisation, and even popular glamorisation of addicts.
Synthesising a broad range of key literature and advancing innovative arguments about the social construction of drug users and their role in contemporary society, this book is an important contribution to public health, medical anthropology, popular culture, and related fields.
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Drug users are typically portrayed as worthless slackers, burdens on society, and just plain uselessâculturally, morally, and economically. By contrast, The Social Value of Drug Addicts argues that the social construction of some people as useless is, in fact, extremely useful to other people.
Leading medical anthropologists Merrill Singer and J. Bryan Page analyse media representations, drug policy, and underlying social structures to show what industries and social sectors benefit from the criminalisation, demonisation, and even popular glamorisation of addicts.
Synthesising a broad range of key literature and advancing innovative arguments about the social construction of drug users and their role in contemporary society, this book is an important contribution to public health, medical anthropology, popular culture, and related fields.
