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Author:

Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-

Title:

Creating the American junkie : addiction research in the classic era of narcotic control / Caroline Jean Acker.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

276 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Heroin habit--Social aspects--United States.
Heroin habit--Research--United States.
Narcotic habit--Research--United States.
Narcotic addicts--Research--United States.
Narcotic addicts--Government policy--United States.
Heroin Dependence--history--United States.
Drug and narcotic control--History--United States.
Heroin Dependence--etiology--United States.
Research--history--United States.

Notes:

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.

ISBN:

9780801867989 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0801867983 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46463296

LCCN:

2001001520

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)