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Informationen zum Autor LAURA D. HIRSHBEIN, M.D. is a clinical associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and the author of American Melancholy: Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century (Rutgers University Press). Klappentext Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries, and in the experience of mental illness over the last century.Hirshbein, a medical historian and clinical psychiatrist, first shows how cigarettes functioned in the old system of psychiatric care, revealing that mental health providers long ago noted the important role of cigarettes within treatment settings and the strong attachment of many mentally ill individuals to their cigarettes. Hirshbein also relates how, as the sale of cigarettes dwindled, the tobacco industry quietly researched alternative markets, including those who smoked for psychological reasons, ultimately discovering connections between mental states and smoking, and the addictive properties of nicotine. However, Smoking Privileges warns that to see smoking among the mentally ill only in terms of addiction misses how this behavior fits into the broader context of their lives. Cigarettes not only helped structure their relationships with other people, but also have been important objects of attachment. Indeed, even after psychiatric hospitals belatedly instituted smoking bans in the late twentieth century, smoking remained an integral part of life for many seriously ill patients, with implications not only for public health but for the ongoing treatment of psychiatric disorders. Making matters worse, well-meaning tobacco-control policies have had the unintended consequence of further stigmatizing the mentally ill.A groundbreaking look at a little-known public health problem, Smoking Privileges illuminates the intersection of smoking and mental illness, and offers a new perspective on public policy regarding cigarettes. Zusammenfassung Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges! Laura D. Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers! placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry! in the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries! and in the experience of mental illness over the last century. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Smoking Privileges1 Ecology of Smoking in Mental Hospitals through the 1970s2 Conflict and Smoking in Mental Hospitals in the 1960s and 1970s3 Smoker Psychology and the Tobacco Industry through the Early 1980s4 Psychiatry Engages Smoking5 The Many Faces of Nicotine6 From Tolerance to Treatment7 Tobacco Control and the Mentally Ill8 Double MarginalizationConclusion: Corporate SqueezeNotesIndex...
