Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-260) and index.
Contents:
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.
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