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This study, by two leading scholars in the field, draws on feminist theory and science and technology studies to uncover a basic injustice for the human rights of drug-using women: most women who need drug treatment in the US and UK do not get it. Why not?
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Making Gender Matter: Drug-Using Women, Embodiment, and the Epistemologies of Ignorance
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Reinventing the Wheel
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
NANCY CAMPBELL is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, USA. She focuses on intersections between history of science, drug policy and gender studies.
ELIZABETH ETTORRE is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has also written, Revisioning Women and Drug Use.
ELIZABETH ETTORRE is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Liverpool, UK. She has also written, Revisioning Women and Drug Use.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Gendering Addiction
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Drug Treatment in a Neurochemical World
Authors: Nancy D. Campbell, Elizabeth Ettorre
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230314245
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-22855-9Published: 04 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-31012-8Published: 01 January 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-31424-5Published: 04 October 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 253
Topics: Medical Sociology, Gender Studies, Childhood, Adolescence and Society, Feminism, Medical Law, Sociology, general