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

"Heroin was only one drug among many that worried Progressive Era anti-vice reformers, but by the mid-twentieth century, heroin addiction came to symbolize irredeemable deviance. Creating the American Junkie examines how psychiatrists and psychologists produccd a construction of opiate addicts...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acker, Caroline Jean, 1947-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Online Access:Click for online access