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Clinic and Elsewhere - Addiction, Adolescents, and the Afterlife of Therapy

English · Paperback / Softback

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Despite increasingly nuanced understandings of the neurobiology of addiction and a greater appreciation of the social and economic conditions that allow drug dependency to persist, there remain many unknowns regarding the individual experience of substance abuse and its treatment. In recent years, novel pharmaceutical therapies have given rise to both new hopes for recovery and renewed fears about drug diversion and abuse. In The Clinic and Elsewhere, Todd Meyers looks at the problems of meaning caused by drug dependency and appraises the changing terms of medical intervention today.

By following a group of adolescents from the time they enter drug rehabilitation treatment through their reentry into the outside world-the clinic, their homes and neighborhoods, and other institutional settings-Meyers traces patterns of life that become mediated by pharmaceutical intervention. His focus is not on the drug economy but rather on the therapeutic economy, where new markets, transactions of care, and highly porous conceptions of success and failure come together to shape addiction and recovery. The book is at once a meditative work of anthropology, a demonstration of the theoretical and methodological limits of medical research, and a forceful intervention into the philosophy of therapeutics at the level of the individual.

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. New Uses for Old Things

2. Monasticism

3. Appropriations of Care

4. Therapy and Reason

5. Patienthood

6. Disappearances

Conclusion: Enduring Presence

Notes

Bibliography

Index


About the author










Todd Meyers is assistant professor of medical anthropology at Wayne State University in Detroit.


Summary

A forceful intervention into the philosophy of therapeutics at the level of the individual

Product details

Authors Todd Meyers
Publisher University Of Washington Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.05.2013
 
EAN 9780295992419
ISBN 978-0-295-99241-9
No. of pages 170
Series In Vivo
In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
In Vivo: The Cultural Mediations of Biomedical Science
IN VIVO
In Vivo: The Cultural Mediatio
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology
Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

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