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Righteous dopefiend

text Righteous dopefiend

Bourgois, Philippe I.

Summary: This study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. The authors followed a social network of heroin injectors and crack smokers on the streets of San Francisco, accompanying them as the... Read more

Contents: Introduction: a theory of abuse -- Intimate apartheid -- Falling in love -- A community of addicted bodies -- Childhoods -- Making money -- Parenting -- Male love -- Everyday addicts -- Treatment -- Conclusion: critically applied public anthropology.

Format: text

Description: 359 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Publisher: University of California Press 2009

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Drug addicts United States Social conditions Drug addicts United States Economic conditions Homeless persons Drug use United States Marginality, Social United States Drogenabhängiger USA

California series in public anthropology ; 21

Bourgois, Philippe I. Schonberg, Jeff

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