Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.
2002
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
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Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
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276 pages ; 24 cm
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Heroin addiction and urban vice reform
The opportunistic approach
The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic
Constructing the addict career
The junkie as psychopath
Healing vision and bureaucratic reality
The addict in the social body.
The opportunistic approach
The technological fix : the search for a nonaddicting analgesic
Constructing the addict career
The junkie as psychopath
Healing vision and bureaucratic reality
The addict in the social body.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English
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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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0801867983 hardcover alkaline paper
080187453X
080187453X
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